public finance issues involved in providing education.

-Why should the government be involved in education at all?

- Discuss a number of rationales for public involvement and their implications for the second question of public finance: How should the government be involved?

- How much the government should spend on education. A central determinant of how much the government should spend on education is the return provided by this investment

- Discussion of higher education, a market that appears to work much better in the United States than elsewhere in the world but that still raises many difficult policy issues.