This is a timely and thought-provoking book which brings the discussion of public goods to confront the contemporary world economy where such goods have often a

The book explores the core public tasks that the state has traditionally provided but which increasingly are being privatized and subsumed by the private sector

Elaborating on the concepts first introduced in Global Public Goods, this book addresses the long overdue issue of how to adjust the concept of public goods to

A wide-ranging survey of the theory and evidence on public goods, presenting the main literature on public goods, both theoretical and empirical, in a systemati

The book features Professor Tullock s normal array of insights and gems of wisdom throughout. The thesis of the book, to view government through the prism of ex