Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the co

This book presents an updated and expanded discussion of theoretical treatment of externalities (i.e. uncompensated interdependencies), public goods, and club g

Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national an

Louis, are in fact financing their own public goods and services in accordance with this theory. For such communities to rise and prosper, the author contends,

Public goods are typically defined only in reference to the good itself but, as this book argues, the public goods can be better understood if contextual variab