Thursday, January 5, 2023

Week Fourteen

2305: Chapter 15: Economic Policy
2306: Chapter 12: Fiscal Policy

2305: Economic Policy
- focusing event
- public policy
- economic policy
- market economies
- establishing law and order
- defining rules of property 
- defining rules of exchange
- enforcing contracts
- setting market standards
- providing public goods
- creating a labor force
- promoting competition
- monopolies
- marker failures
- collective responses
- externalities
- inequality and unemployment
- economic efficiency and low inflation
- managing the economy
- federal relief 
- work programs
- investments
- economic conditions
- electoral politics
- promoting stable markets
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- economic prosperity
- measuring economic growth
- gross domestic product
- full employment
- low inflation
- promoting business development
- protecting employees
- protecting consumers
- National Labor Relations Act
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- monetary policy
- federal reserve system
- reserve requirement
- open market operations
- federal funds rate
- fiscal policy
- budget deficit
- national debt
- taxation
- tariff
- progressive tax
- redistribution
- regressive tax
- tax expenditures
- mandatory spending
- discretionary spending
- budget process
- anti trust policy
- consumer protection
- deregulation
- subsidies
- contracting policy

2306: Chapter 12: Fiscal Policy


- Public Finance and Public Policy.
- - Wikipedia: Government Revenue.
- - Wikipedia: Tax Policy.
- - U.S. Treasury Department: Tax Policy.
- - Texas Comptroller: Taxes.
- - Pearland: City Tax Information.
- - Brazoria County Tax Office.
- - Texas Education Agency: School District Property Values and Tax Rates.
- - TACC: Property Taxes at Texas Community Colleges.

- Public Opinion and the Media.
- - Public Opinion.
- - Public Opinion and the Policy Agenda.
- - The Issue Attention Cycle.
- - Wikipedia: Agenda-setting theory.
- - From the Monkey Cage: Rich people rule!
- - Wikipedia: Political Movements.

- The Public Policy Process.
- - The Public Policy Process.