Can you tell me from where I can download the Economics subject syllabus for IAS (Indian Administrative Service) Exam as I have that in my mains exams and so I need it for preparation of the exam? Provide me the Economics subject syllabus for IAS (Indian Administrative Service) Exam in PDF format?

The UPSC conducts a combined competitive examination for recruitment to Grade IV officers of the services of Indian Economic and Indian Statistic.

Important Dates

Date of Notification: 8 February, 2017
Last Date to Apply: 3 March, 2017
Date of Exam: 12 May, 2017 (3 Days)

Eligibility Criteria:
Candidates should have post graduate degree from a recognized university in Economics or Applied Economics or Business Economics or Econometrics.

Age:
Candidates must have attained the age of 21 years and must not have attained the age of 30 years

UPSC CSE Mains Economics Syllabus

Paper - I
Advanced Micro Economics:
Marshallian and Walrasiam Approaches to Price determination.
Alternative Distribution Theories: Ricardo, Kaldor, Kaleeki
Markets Structure: Monopolistic Competition, Duopoly, Oligopoly.
Modern Welfare Criteria: Pareto Hicks & Scitovsky, Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem, A.K. Sen’s Social Welfare Function.

Advanced Macro Economics: Approaches to Employment Income and Interest Rate determination: Classical, Keynes (IS-LM) curve, Neo classical synthesis and New classical, Theories of Interest Rate determination and Interest Rate Structure.

Money - Banking and Finance:
Demand for and Supply of Money: Money Multiplier Quantity Theory of Money (Fisher, Pique and Friedman) and Keyne’s Theory on Demand for Money, Goals and Instruments of Monetary Management in Closed and Open Economies. Relation between the Central Bank and the Treasury. Proposal for ceiling on growth rate of money.

Public Finance and its Role in Market Economy: In stabilization of supply, allocation of resources and in distribution and development. Sources of Govt. revenue, forms of Taxes and Subsidies, their incidence and effects. Limits to taxation, loans, crowding-out effects and limits to borrowings. Public Expenditure and its effects.

Development and Environmental Sustainability – Renewable and Non Renewable Resources, Environmental Degradation, Intergenerational equity development

Economics Syllabus for IAS Exam