Benefits, Rights and Responsibilities - Research on Public Goods Supply Mechanisms

Author: Xi Heng
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book employs a framework of public policy and institutional analysis to study the supply mechanisms and institutional arrangements of public goods. It argues that the characteristics of public goods, such as their public nature, non-exclusivity, non-rivalry, and indivisibility, as well as the diversity of people's demands for public goods, necessitate a pluralistic supply of public goods. Different supply entities have distinct interests, powers, and responsibilities in the provision of public goods. Only by establishing a composite, pluralistic supply mechanism for public goods can their full and effective supply and sustainable development be achieved.