I discuss the extent to which the theory of local public goods and clubs is an extension of competitive theory. To do this I reinterpret efficiency results in the literature as arising from optimization against a complete price system. For clubs I give a framework to unify club economies with...

In a free mobility equilibrium with voting for pure public goods within jurisdictions and equal cost sharing, consumers will partition themselves such that high-demand jurisdictions are much larger than low-demand jurisdictions. We compare the welfare implications of a change in the number of...