ENERGY EFFICIENCY|BUILDING DESIGN|HEAT TRANSFER|RENEWABLE ENERGY

The main subject of this module is based on the concern about energy and environmental issues. The building sector plays a crucial role in the consumption of...

Through archaeology, art, and the written record, the Classic Period civilisations of Mesoamerica will be explored. We will focus on the Zapotecs of Oaxaca,...

Each week will be some combination of whole class, paired, and small group discussion/activities. Guest speakers will also be invited to contribute to some of...

Each week will be some combination of whole class, paired, and small group discussion/activities. Guest speakers will also be invited to contribute to some of the sessions. In weeks where a guest speaker is present, they will participate in / lead the discussion, but it won't substantially change how the class runs. The guest speaker sessions will be structured discussions around the teaching topics for the week. So rather than the speakers guest lecturing, the students (and I) will come prepared with questions for the speaker based on the readings for the week.

In the last session of the module, the students will be involved in a live simulation where they will represent stakeholders who are trying to find a solution to an emerging human rights crisis.

 

ims: This module is about the economic effects of taxation, and economic aspects of tax policy. It aims to give students an understanding of the key economic...

ims: This module is about the economic effects of taxation, and economic aspects of tax policy. It aims to give students an understanding of the key economic issues in tax policy, and to show how these can be analysed using standard tools of theoretical and empirical economic analysis.

Objectives: At the end of the module, students should:

Have a knowledge of the structure of taxation in at least one country
 Be familiar with basic economic concepts and methods relating to taxation, including incidence and efficiency.
 Have an understanding of some of the key behavioural effects of taxes, including those on consumer spending, labour supply, saving and investment.
 Be able to analyse, using relevant economic concepts and methods, a number of issues in tax policy, such as the optimal structure of indirect taxes, and the relative merits of different forms of income taxation.
Suitable for: 2nd / final year Economics (L100 / L101 / L102) and final year BSc Economics and Geography (LL17), BA Philosophy and Economics (VL51) and  BSc Philosophy Politics and Economics (4V86) students.



Prerequisites: ECON0002: Economics. Students should have taken, or be concurrently taking, ECON0013: Microeconomics (or equivalents).



Assumed knowledge: The module mainly makes use of ideas and methods drawn from microeconomic theory, including the standard theories of consumer and producer behaviour and the core ideas of welfare economics. Students coming into the module should be familiar with constrained optimisation, Pareto optimality,  income and substitution effects of price changes, measures of welfare change, etc. In addition, it would be useful if students had a basic understanding of econometric methods, and in particular the ability to interpret the results of econometric regressions.