Voluntary Provision of Public Goods and Technology

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• 作者：Emilio Giardina ; Isidoro Mazza…
• 刊名：International Advances in Economic Research
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：22
• 期：3
• 页码：321-332
• 全文大小：311 KB
• 刊物主题：Economics general; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics; International Economics; Microeconomics; Economic Growth;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-966X
• 卷排序：22

文摘

This paper highlights issues in the theory of voluntary provision of public goods, building on the investigation by Peacock in connection with the contributions by Coase and Buchanan. Our goal is twofold. We first draw attention to the early literature investigating the provision of public goods and to the successive theoretical analysis. We then focus on the impact of technology on supply and demand. Examples of different types of public goods are provided, with special attention to the cultural sector, to investigate whether and how technology affects the efficiency and the effectiveness of the related public goods provision. The implementation and exploitation of technological advancements are investigated in view of the role of different actors (public, private) at different levels of government.KeywordsPublic goodsBuchananCoasePeacocktechnologycultural sector