Dear members of NBER public-econ-related programs:
We have an opportunity to organize a "Forum" of two-to-four papers for the National Tax Journal on the general topic of teaching public economics, and so I wonder if you have such a paper or would like to write one. The Forum appears in most issues of the NTJ, each on a different topic. It is not for refereed "new research" but for other papers of interest to NTJ readers. Forum papers are invited, but publication is not guaranteed as the Editors may want changes and have final say. The NTJ is a good outlet as it goes to most public finance economists who would find such papers useful.
An appropriate paper for this particular Forum could explain a new way to understand or to teach existing research on issues such as taxation of multinational corporations, financial intermediation, alternative corporate investments, household portfolios, retirement funds, owner-occupied or rental housing, public goods, welfare programs, social welfare functions, environmental or health regulations, distributional effects, economic efficiency, or any other topic in public economics - but in this case about teaching such a topic. Your paper could relate to graduate or undergraduate teaching. It could suggest classroom or homework exercises, other instructional media, useful ideas for examinations or other student evaluations, useful pedagogical devices, or other pedagogical issues in public economics. In some ways, the next-best similar outlet for such a paper would be the Journal of Economics Education, but having such a paper in the NTJ would reach more of the relevant professors teaching public economics.
If you have an idea for such a paper, please let me know. The next open Forum is March 2017, which means your draft would be due by September and final paper by November 15, 2016.
Thanks, Don
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Prof. Don Fullerton, Finance Dept & IGPA
University of Illinois, Champaign IL 61820
512-750-6012,
http://works.bepress.com/don_fullerton/
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Received on Thu Nov 19 2015 - 14:06:11 EST
