Government and the provision of public goods: from equilibrium models to mechanism design

Focussing on their analysis of the optimal public goods provision problems, this paper follows the parallel development of equilibrium models and mechanism design after the accommodation of Samuelson's definition of collective goods to the general equilibrium framework. Both paradigms lead to the negative conclusion of the impossibility of a fully decentralized optimal public goods provision throught market or market-like institutions.

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Year of publication:	2010-10
Authors:	Florenzano, Monique
Institutions:	HAL

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers).
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00531464
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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