The paper discusses the economic effects of misallocation of public expenditures in favor of private goods rather than public goods. It first lays out certain key hypotheses regarding the consequences of the apparent public sector allocation inefficiency and the factors that explain this...

WHAT IS the most immediate tool of empowerment you can provide a person? Ask an economist. Or ask a laborer who has been moved to the outskirts of the city as a part of the quot;big-progressive resettlement schemequot;. Or ask a student. The most likely answer you will get is:...

Since the 1950s, agricultural growth in East Asia (China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan) has reduced rural poverty and created a strong base for economic development. To gain a better understanding of the nature of this growth, we examine the sources of change in agricultural...

It is often asserted that agricultural land yields significant amenity benefits that could be used as a rationale for some of the substantial support to agriculture occuring in many industrialized countries. This paper introduces a method for incorporating information on the willingness to pay...

Club goods are an important category of collective goods. However, unlike public goods, very few experiments address the issue of the provision of club goods, and no studies have specifically explored a field case. In this experiment, a membership fee is introduced to improve the successful...

В цикле из двух статей развивается разрабатываемая автором концепция <экономической социодинамики>. В первой статье делается попытка объединения разбросанных по разным теоретическим...</экономической>

В данной статье продолжен анализ рынка опекаемых благ. Автор предлагает свою трактовку проблемы с позиций концепции социодинамики. Дается краткая...

Статья посвящена некоторым аспектам теории опекаемых благ в контексте эффективного и неэффективного равновесия. В работе представлены особенности опекаемых...