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A New Approach to the Economics of Public Goods Thomas Laudal

A New Approach to the Economics of Public Goods By Thomas Laudal

A New Approach to the Economics of Public Goods by Thomas Laudal


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The book opens with a brief introduction to common conceptions of public goods and a review of the existing literature on public goods.This has implications for the discourse on public goods and for our understanding of the societal and environmental impact of public goods.

A New Approach to the Economics of Public Goods Summary

A New Approach to the Economics of Public Goods by Thomas Laudal

Public goods are typically defined only in reference to the good itself but, as this book argues, the public goods can be better understood if contextual variables are incorporated. This book discusses the production and provision of public goods. It asserts that changes related to public goods are better understood if the category of goods are not decided solely by the properties of the good itself. We also need to focus on how the enabled utility of a good is influenced by the production and the provision of the good.

The book opens with a brief introduction to common conceptions of public goods and a review of the existing literature - highlighting the limitations of current definitions of public goods. It presents a new multi-layered approach to public goods. This has implications for the discourse on public goods and for our understanding of the societal and environmental impact of public goods. The implications are illustrated in several areas; public goods in ancient history, privatization, innovation, competitiveness and prices, democracy and political standards, and economic growth.

The book provides a provocative argument for a new way to analyze public goods which will appeal to scholars and students interested in the economic analysis of public goods, arguments regarding the privatizing or nationalizing of production and services, and method of modelling and measuring sustainable business activities.

About Thomas Laudal

Thomas Laudal is Associate Professor of international business strategy at the University of Stavanger Business School, Norway.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. 2. The economic literature on public goods. 3. Advantages of studying public goods with reference to a utility-layer and a supply-layer. 4. The value-added process linking the utility-layer and the supply-layer. 5. Descriptive and predictive value of a multi-layered approach to public goods. 6. Public good trends. 7 A multi-layered approach to public goods.

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NLS9780367787776
9780367787776
0367787776
A New Approach to the Economics of Public Goods by Thomas Laudal
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2021-03-31
94
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