人気ブログランキング | 話題のタグを見る

2008年7月から2年間、カリフォルニア大学バークレー校 公共政策大学院に留学しています。まとまりのないひとりごとです。


by knj79

春学期の履修科目が決定しました

授業開始から1週間が過ぎ、履修科目を確定しました。
今学期は授業が面白い!先学期で勉強した公共政策の基礎(経済学、統計学、政治学)はおもしろかったのですが、実際に政策を作る時にどう使えるかリンクを見つけることが難しかったです。今学期は、その基礎を使って実際に政策を作るトレーニングをするので、さすがにモチベーションが上がります。

今学期の履修科目は4科目。①から③までが必修科目で、政策立案者としてのコアスキルを身につけるものです。④はEcological EconomicsのFounderとされている、Norgaard先生のEnergy Economics。15人の大学院らしい少人数なクラスで、今学期はこれと①のIPA(自治体等へのコンサルプロジェクト)が中心になりそうです。

また、科目選択を見てわかるとおり、経済学づいているので、今学期は経済学とファイナンスをきっちりと勉強してフレームワークを頭の中に叩き込みたいです。

① Introduction to Policy Analysis(公共政策入門)

Eugene Bardach, Margaret Taylor, Dorothy Thornton

This introductory course will integrate various social science disciplines and apply these perspectives to problems of public policy. Throughout the academic term, students will apply knowledge of politics, economics,
sociology, and quantitative methods in the analysis of case studies of policymakers and managers making decisions. Students learn to use the techniques of social science to evaluate projects and programs. Course
will include the preparation of a major paper for a client.

② The Economics of Public Policy Analysis(ミクロ経済学II)

Lee S. Friedman

Theories of microeconomic behavior of consumers, producers, and bureaucrats are developed and applied to specific policy areas. Ability to analyze the effects of alternative policy actions in terms of
1) the efficiency of resource allocation and 2) equity is stressed.
Policy areas are selected to show a broad range of actual applications of theory and a variety of policy strategies.

③ Decision Analysis, Modeling, and Quantitative Methods(計量経済学)

Rucker Johnson

An integrated course on the use of quantitative techniques in public policy analysis: computer modeling and simulation, linear programming and optimization, decision theory, and statistical and econometric analysis of
policy-relevant data. The student develops a facility in distilling the policy relevance of numbers through an analysis of case studies and statistical data sets.

④ Energy Economics(エネルギー経済学)

Richard Norgaard

This course emphasizes the economics of energy supplies and transport and energy supply transitions. It does not address electricity markets or end uses of electricity. It will use current issues (from the “simple” to complex: Alaska petroleum development, the transition from fossil to renewable energy, and climate change) and systematically proceed from the basic engineering economics of energy supply, to economic theories of long run resource use, to how, to the broad central theme of the course, the problem of “how do we know,” the related problem of stability in economic systems, and how instabilities might be overcome. The parallels between the problems of knowing and the course of market development and issues of market stability that are raised by energy supply systems and the problems of knowing raised by financial systems are not purely coincidental.
by knj79 | 2009-01-29 14:05 | 公共政策大学院(GSPP)