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A Planning Approach to the Public Good Problem

In: The Economics of Environment

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  • E. Malinvaud

    (Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques)

Abstract

The theory of planning should give new insight into the classical problem of how to achieve an optimal provision of public goods. The point is exhibited by a diagrammatic study of the simple model in which there are just two consumers and two commodities, one private, one public. Besides the procedure proposed by E. Lindahl, two others are discussed; the first uses tax indicators, the second quantity indicators. Consideration is given to three requirements: convergence to an optimum, equitable treatment of the two consumers, incentives for correct revelation of preferences.

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  • E. Malinvaud, 1971. "A Planning Approach to the Public Good Problem," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Peter Bohm & Allen V. Kneese (ed.), The Economics of Environment, pages 77-93, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-01379-1_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01379-1_6
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    1. E. Malinvaud, 2004. "Some Ethical and Methodological Convictions," Chapters, in: Michael Szenberg & Lall Ramrattan (ed.), Reflections of Eminent Economists, chapter 16, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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    6. Boyer, Marcel & Dagenais, Marcel G. & Salvas-Bronsard, Lise, 1989. "L’empreinte de MalinvaudMélanges économiques. Essais en l’honneur de Edmond Malinvaud, Economica, Paris, 1988 (1092 pages)," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 65(2), pages 263-296, juin.
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