Economics and Philosophy 37 (3):376-394 (2021)
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Proponents of the public goods argument ('PGA') seek to ground the authority of the state on its putative indispensability as a means of providing public goods. But many of the things we take to be public goods – including many of the goods commonly invoked in support of the PGA – are actually what we might term publicized goods. A publicized good is any whose ‘public’ character results only from a policy decision to make some good freely and universally available. This fact poses complications for the PGA, insofar as the set of possible publicized goods is quite extensive indeed.
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Keywords | public goods public goods argument cost-benefit analysis public finance |
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DOI | 10.1017/s0266267120000395 |
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