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Title:
On the Private Provision of Public Goods
Author:Bergstrom, Ted , University of California, Santa Barbara Blume, Larry , Cornell University Varian, Hal R , UC Berkeley
Publication Date:
01-01-1986
Series:Ted Bergstrom Papers
Publication Info:
Ted Bergstrom Papers, Department of Economics, UCSB, UC Santa Barbara
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Keywords:
private provision of public goods, Nash equilibrium, invariance, income redistribution Abstract:
This paper was stimulated by a paper by Peter Ware, who used calculus first-order conditons to show that a redistribution of income that does not change the set of voluntary contributors leaves the supply of public goods unchanged. In general, redistributions can change the set of contributors and also the supply of public goods. But we show that even in the general case there are some remarkably sharp comparative statics results.