Chapter 4
Public Provision for Social Goods
A. Social Goods and Market Failure : Market for Private Goods ; Market Failure to Nonrival Consumption ; Market Failure due to Nonexcludability ; Combined Causes of Market Failure ; Summary. B. Provision for Social Goods ; Comparison with Private Goods ; Budgetary Provision. C. Mixed Goods ; Externalities of Private Goods ; Bargaining in the Small Group ; Market Provision of Nonrival Goods ; Congestion ; Spatial Limitation of Benefits ; Substitutability among goods. D. Giving as a Social Good. E. Merit Goods. F. Summary.