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Optimal Provision of Public Goods with Altruistic Individuals

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Eduardo Ley (Resources for the Future)

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We study the optimal provision of public goods in the context of a special class of altruistically linked utility functions. We show that the usual Samuelson condition holds as if the utility functions were independent.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Public Economics with number 9607001.

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Date of creation: 08 Jul 1996
Date of revision: 06 Oct 2001
Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwppe:9607001

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Keywords: Samuelson condition; Pareto efficiency;

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D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
H0 - Public Economics - - General
H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods

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