Public Goods and Public Allocation Policy.

• Superior document: Allokation Im Marktwirtschaftlichen System Series ; v.14.
• VerfasserIn: Pethig, Rüdiger,
• TeilnehmendeR: Pethig, Rüdiger.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt am Main : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 1985.; ©1985.
• Year of Publication: 1985
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Allokation im marktwirtschaftlichen System
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 pages)

This volume brings together 8 previously unpublished papers dealing with various modes of allocating jointly consumable goods (i.e. public goods). The issues covered range from voluntary contributions and price exclusion (market allocation) to positive and normative analyses of different political allocation procedures for public goods. Given this wide spectrum of allocative schemes for public goods there does not seem to be an easy and clear-cut message from modern public-goods theory to public allocation policy.

Table of Contents

Public goods with price exclusion / Michael E. Burns and Cliff Walsh -- Free rider and bad wagons / Bengt-Arne Wickström -- Competitive lobbying for group-specific public goods / Rüdiger Pethig -- The MDP-procedure in a regional economy / Oskar von dem Hagen -- Distributive and allocative effects of individual voting behaviour / Horst Hanusch and Peter Biene -- Majority decisions on regional environmental quality and interregional pollution / Ferdi Dudenhöffer -- Environmental policy with pollution interaction / Alfred Endres -- Alternative allocation procedures for public goods / Wolfgang Blümel.