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Concerning publicized goods (or, the promiscuity of the public goods argument)

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Proponents of the public goods argument (‘PGA’) seek to ground the authority of the state on its putative indispensability as a means of providing public goods. But many of the things we take to be public goods – including many of the goods commonly invoked in support of the PGA – are actually what we might term publicized goods. A publicized good is any whose ‘public’ character results only from a policy decision to make some (otherwise private) good freely and universally available. This fact poses complications for the PGA, insofar as the set of possible publicized goods is quite extensive indeed.

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  • Baltzly, Vaughn Bryan, 2021. "Concerning publicized goods (or, the promiscuity of the public goods argument)," Economics and Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 37(3), pages 376-394, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:ecnphi:v:37:y:2021:i:3:p:376-394_3
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