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Rethinking Public Goods and Global Public Goods--Draft Paper for Comments

2008-02-02 The present chapter examines the discrepancy that has arisen between the present standard concept of public goods and the reality of public goods provision and explores a number of conceptual and methodological revisions that could help narrow this discrepancy. It argues, however, that for an adequate understanding of public goods provision in today’s globalizing multi-actor world more than such limited re-conceptualization would be required. So far, the analytical home of public goods has primarily been public economics.

Yet public economics increasingly captures but a fraction of the overall process of public goods provision, viz. the state-based national-level part, with a special focus even on the executive strand of government. Thus, it may be opportune to formulate a proper theory of public goods that examines these goods in all their forms and dimensions - as national and transnational public goods; in respect to the roles in their provision - politics and production - of state and nonstate actors, at national as well as international levels.
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