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English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

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Introduction
1.1 Social Efficiency: Consumer/Producer Surplus
1.2 The Excess Burden of Taxation: Administrative and Compliance Costs, Evasion and Planning
1.3 Excess Burden: The Change in Relative Prices
1.4 Measuring the Excess Burden of Tax: Focusing on Consumer Surplus
1.5 Measuring the Excess Burden of Tax: Focusing on Producer Surplus
1.6 Measuring the Excess Burden of Tax: Consumer and Producer Surplus

2.1 The Law Cannot Determine Who Will Bear the Tax Burden
2.2 Examples of Specific Taxes and Subsidies and their Unintuitive Burden
2.3 What Determines the Tax Incidence?
2.4 Elasticityof Capital Supply Assuming full Mobility Across Borders
2.5 Who Bears the Burden of Corporate Tax: Shareholders ?
2.6 Who Bears the Burden of Corporate Tax: Employees? Consumers? All Capital Owners?

3.1 How Does the Government Redistribute Income?
3.2 Redistributing Income Using Increasing Marginal Tax Rates
3.3 Achieving Progressivity Through Tax System without Increasing Marginal Tax Rates
3.4 Achieving Progressivity with a Deduction
3.5 Achieving Progressivity with a Grant (or Public Good)

4.1 An Integrated View of the Tax and Transfer (welfare) Systems
4.2 Low Income Levels are Often Subject to Very High Marginal Tax Rates
4.3 An Interview with prof. Dan Shaviro
4.4 Taxing Ability, Not Income: “Tagging” and Transfers In-Kind
4.5 Taxing Ability, Not Income: Welfare Ordeals
4.6 Designing an Optimal Tax and Transfer System: The Model's Intuition
4.7 Understanding the Intuition of the Optimal Income Tax Model: No Government Intervention

5.1 Designing an Optimal Tax and Transfer System: Flat Tax and a Grant
5.2 The Mirrlees Optimal Income Tax Model: Non-Linear Tax and a Grant
5.3 Demonstrating Why a High Marginal Tax Rate at Low Income Level is Optimal
5.4 High Marginal Tax Rates at High Income Level: Patterns of Wealth Distribution, Elasticity, Tax Planning and International Tax Competition
5.5 Richard Epstein Talking about the Risks Involved in Tax-Coerced Massive Redistribution
5.6 Discussing Thomas Piketty’s Book “Capital in the 21st Century”: Taxation of Capital; High Inequality as a Threat to Democracy
Conclusion of Part II