Wicksell's and Lindahl's ideas on public goods and decisions are reviewed in light of later developments in the theoretical economics literature. I begin by discussing their normative ideals, in particular the notion of justness, and the sources of the difficulties in reaching them. Wicksell's...

It is possible, in principle, that the price-quantity pair generated by a model of imperfect competition may satisfy the conditions (voluntary trading and absence of frictions) for a fixprice equilibrium. It is shown that imperfect competitors will typically satisfy voluntary trading provided...

What should be the distribution of the benefits of a fishery (or common-pool resource) where a group of fishers catch fish and sell it to consumers? The author proposes that, for each person i, where i is a fisher or a consumer, i's returns should be proportional to i's contributions....

Consider a game whose strategies are "contributions". A strategy profile is a Kantian equilibrium if "no" player would like "all" players to alter their contributions by the "same multiplicative factor." Kantian equilibria are Pareto efficient. We characterize the allocation rules on several...

For the first time in some years, a conservative government came to power in Denmark in 2001, due primarily to the citizenry's disaffection with social-democratic policies on immigration. We represent political competition in Denmark as taking place over two issues-the size of the public sector...