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Public Goods and Market Failure
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Last updated 2 Jul 2018
Public goods provide an example of market failure resulting from missing markets. Which goods and services are best left to the market? And which are more efficiently and fairly provided as collective consumption goods by the state? This is at the heart of your revision of public goods.
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