- Docente: Giovanni Maria Mazzanti
- Credits: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/03
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Criminology for Investigation and Security (cod. 8491)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is the economic based analysis of the intervention of the State in the market economies. The student will reach the ability to understand the management of the public spending in an European comparative perspective.
Course contents
FIRST PART: Reasons and ways of the State intervention.
- Economic reasons. Welfare Economics theorems.
- Market failures.
- Democratic public decision making process
SECOND PART: State balance
- Economic determinants of the State Balance
- Italian State balance
- Welfare expenditures
THIRD PART: Enterprises confiscated to mafias,
- Re-use strategies.
- Further details during the lectures
Readings/Bibliography
Stiglitz, J., Economia del settore pubblico, Hoepli, Milano, Second edition, 2003, vol. 1, chapts. 1-8.
Stiglitz, J., Economia del settore pubblico, Hoepli, Milano, second edition, 2003, vol. 2, chapts. 1, 4-7, 11.
or
Stiglitz, J., Rosengard, J., Economia del settore pubblico, Hoepli, Milano, third edition, 2018, chapts. 1-13.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Written exam with open questions.
Oral exam on the monographic part.
Two partial exams can substitute the total written exam
Teaching tools
Further readings and the ppt. files of the lectures are available on the mode platform of the course.
Office hours
See the website of Giovanni Maria Mazzanti