PUBLIC GOODS AND CRIMINALISATION

Public Health and Public Goods

It has become increasingly difficult to distinguish public health (and public health ethics) from tangentially related fields like social work. I argue that we should reclaim the more traditional conception of public health as the provision of health-related public goods. The public goods account has the advantage of establishing a relatively clear and distinctive mission for public health. It ...

Public Goods

We require an economic system to cater to individual wants to the maximum possible extent expressed formally by means of an efficiency condition. Because the set of efficient outcomes is a function of individual preferences, a successful system must elicit information about those preferences. That desideratum, along with the fact that the information disclosed by an individual will be dictated ...

Public goods and procreation.

Procreation is the ultimate public goods problem. Each new child affects the welfare of many other people, and some (but not all) children produce uncompensated value that future people will enjoy. This essay addresses challenges that arise if we think of procreation and parenting as public goods. These include whether individual choices are likely to lead to a socially desirable outcome, and w...

Public Goods and Congestion

We examine the strategy-proof provision of public goods when agents care not only about the level of provision of a public good, but also the number of consumers. We show that on such domains strategy-proof and eecient social choice functions must be rigid in that they must always assign a xed number of consumers, regardless of individual desires to participate. When congestion eeects dominate ...

Local Public Goods and Clubs1