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| | Public good - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Most believers in public goods theory hold that provision of public goods should be a task for the state and that the state should therefore have the powers to tax and regulate, since such powers are necessary for the provision of public goods. | | | Common goods should not be confused with another subtype of public goods: the collective goods (also known as social goods), which are defined as goods that could be delivered as private goods, but are delivered instead by the government for various reasons (usually social policy). | | | The economic concept of public goods should not be confused with the expression "the public good", which is usually an application of a collective ethical notion of "the good" in political decision-making. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good
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| | Is Education a Public Good? |
| | Public goods are sometimes supplied by the private sector and private goods - by the public sector. | | | Externalities - public goods impose costs or benefits on others - individuals or firms - outside the marketplace and their effects are only partially reflected in prices and the market transactions. | | | Public goods, in contrast, are accessible to growing numbers of people without any additional marginal cost. |
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http://samvak.tripod.com/publicgoods.html
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| | Public goods: A Glossary of Political Economy Terms - Dr. Paul M. Johnson |
| | The non-profit “third sector” of the economy devotes considerable effort to the provision of public goods financed by voluntary contributions that are motivated by appeals to people's “civic conscience” (or to their desire for the honors and respect that the community spontaneously accords to “public benefactors”). | | | These are a very special class of goods which cannot practically be withheld from one individual consumer without withholding them from all (the “nonexcludability criterion”) and for which the marginal cost of an additional person consuming them, once they have been produced, is zero (the “nonrivalrous consumption” criterion). | | | Consequently private production of the good or service may prove unprofitable, and the good or service thus may not be provided at all by the free market &; even though everyone might concede they would be better off with some positive level of production of the good in question. |
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http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/public_goods.html
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| | Psychology education for the public good |
| | Of particular concern is the shift in public attitudes toward postsecondary education from that of a "public good" to that of a "private good." | | | However, there is one "public good" that is less recognized in public policy or by the public, and for which we perhaps have not demonstrated sufficient support. | | | Reports have demonstrated public economic benefits such as increased tax revenues, greater productivity and decreased reliance on government financial support. |
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http://www.apa.org/monitor/may05/soe.html
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| | What is a public good?, by Inge Kaul |
| | In establishing a global public goods agenda, it is, therefore, important to ensure that the top priorities of different population groups are being considered equitably. | | | Interestingly, non-state actors also were often the ones, who have drawn attention to the importance of balancing the globalisation of private activities with that of public goods. | | | But beyond its instrumental value, equity is itself is a global public good. |
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http://mondediplo.com/2000/06/15publicgood
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| | Providing Global Public Goods: Managing Globalization |
| | The first is the political process, which involves making decisions about which public goods to produce, how much of them to produce, how to shape them, and at what net cost and benefit to whom. | | | Public goods that contribute to the production of a final public good are called intermediate public goods. | | | Producing final public goods often requires inputs of many private goods, public goods, or both. |
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http://www.undp.org/globalpublicgoods/globalization/glossary.html
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| | frontline: public schools inc.: private profit, public good? PBS |
| | Obviously public education in the United States is a massively large undertaking. | | | No. But the answer to that is not to drown the public sector and replace it with a for-profit sector. | | | But the public sector is, in many cases, paralyzed. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/edison/etc/private.html
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| | All Schools Are Public Schools Private Schools, Public Good |
| | Considering that the average per-pupil cost in public schools was $6,915 in 1998-1999, home schooling has done public education a service by saving up to $12 billion for public schools. | | | Surely any public funding of private schools would involve greater public accountability, but it should be noted that private schools are already regulated by state governments. | | | Parents may claim to choose to send their children to public school, but too often public school is more a default than a real choice. |
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http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/education/ed0115.html
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| | Public Goods, Good Government |
| | Public Goods Applications Applications of the process in such areas as the management of global institutions, information technology management, and government budgeting. | | | Afterward New material in the recent reprint of Demand Revelation and the Provision of Public Goods. | | | The applications range from constitutional economics to improvements in government budgeting and regulation to the management of information technology and "network" economies generally. |
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http://www142.pair.com/flower1
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| | Conservation Ecology: Biological invasion risks and the public good: an economic perspective |
| | However, because it is a public good, if control is left to the uncoordinated efforts of individual countries, there will be insufficient control to protect the public interest. | | | In such cases, IAS control is said to be a "weakest-link" public good. | | | At the level of individual IAS there are a number of reasonably good, if selective, estimates of damage or control costs. |
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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol6/iss1/art1
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| | COE > Reports > 2003 > Public Education as an Inescapably Public Good |
| | Labaree notes that the core of the conflict over American education is the question of whether public education should be seen primarily as a public good or a private good. | | | The problem with these market-based economic solutions, Labaree writes, is that they are "radically antisocial." By making education entirely subject to the demands of the individual consumer, it leaves no one looking out for the public interest in public education. | | | In his analysis, Labaree shows that public education has traditionally been insulated from market pressures. |
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http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/reports/ed-researchrep/03/feb_03_2.htm
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| | Environment Probe, The Public Good: Which Public? Whose Good? |
| | The sum of all these private goods will be as close to the public good as we can get. | | | Let me read you its first lines: "Whereas in the public interest, and in order to conserve the public revenue of the Province, it is expedient to prevent the stoppage of sawmills situated on or near the Ottawa River... | | | Remote governments can't possibly make informed decisions about what is good for a particular resource, or community, or individual. |
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http://www.environmentprobe.org/enviroprobe/pubs/ev635.htm
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| | NEA: Good News About America's Public Schools -- New Jersey |
| | New Jersey is one of the top 2 states in the proportion of public high school AP exam takers earning such high scores. | | | Public School Spending Has Declined: Public education spending per pupil has declined in New Jersey. | | | Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2001-2002. |
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http://www.nea.org/goodnews/nj01.html
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| | TAP: Vol 12, Iss. 10. Where the Public Good Prevailed. Stephen L. Isaacs and Steven A. Schroeder. |
| | Research, advocacy, media coverage, public education, politics, and government contributed to this unexpected transformation. | | | The next step for the Public Health Service was to test this conclusion. | | | Law and regulation, often at the federal level, have been critical elements in focusing Americans' attention on health concerns, providing policy direction, and setting standards that have led to improvement in the public's health. |
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http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/10/isaacs-s.html
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| | Democratic Public Good Provision |
| | The public good is financed through age-dependent taxation that distorts human capital investment. | | | The political equilibria can feature both under- and over-provision of public good, as well an inefficient life-cycle profile of taxes. | | | E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic - Aspects of Public Finance, Macroeconomic Policy, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Public Expenditures, Investment, and Finance; Taxation |
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http://ideas.repec.org/p/cpr/ceprdp/4044.html
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| | Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment |
| | But public investment has a pretty enviable track record: Think of the public goods that Americans enjoy today because the government chose to seed them and insure their universality -- from the still-essential Social Security program to the interstate highway system to the Internet itself. | | | It's also an unrealistic one given the current U.S. government's priorities. | | | But in this area, taking the long view is not just smart -- it's ethically essential. |
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http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2004/12/14.html
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| | Public Good Project |
| | Public Good is a research and education project on conflicts where democratic values are being challenged. | | | Please visit our host, NorthWest Citizen which provides selected community news and forums so our local citizens can be informed citizens. |
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http://nwcitizen.com/publicgood
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| | EconPort - Handbook - Public Goods - Classification Table |
| | Private Goods: An economic good, or a tangible item that can be purchased and traded within a market. | | | A good is excludable if people (ordinarily, people who have not paid for it) can be prevented from using it. | | | For example: Community services, including those provided by religious organizations; cable television; computer software. |
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http://www.econport.org:8080/econport/request?page=man_pg_table
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| | NJ Coalition for The Public Good |
| | At the Citizens' Tax Assemblies sponsored by the New Jersey Coalition for the Public Good, delegates from all over the state have addressed ways of reforming NJ's tax system that relies heavily on local property taxes. | | | © 2006 NJ Coalition for the Public Good | | | The three "Let the People Speak" reports contain targets, recommendations and data. |
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http://www.njcpg.org
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| | It's all good: The Public Good |
| | As a basis of analysis, Buschman employs critical education scholarship and the research of Jurgen Habermas, whose seminal work on the public sphere--the arena in which the public organizes itself and formulates public opinion--serves as the meta-framework..." | | | Dismantling the Public Sphere: Situating and Sustaining Librarianship in the Age of the New Public Philosophy is by John E. Buschman, and (from the back cover) "presents a thorough examination of librarianship and the social and economic contexts in which the profession and its institutions operate. | | | In the Scan, we wrote about the decline of support for the public good, as is evidenced by declining tax-based support to publically funded programs and institutions. |
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http://scanblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/public-good.html
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| | The Public Good |
| | RAND is a nonprofit institution that seeks to improve public policy through research and analysis. | | | Papers are issued by RAND as a service to its professional staff. | | | To order a RAND publication or to obtain more information about other RAND publications, please contact: Distribution Services |
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http://nwcitizen.com/publicgood/reports/holywar3.htm
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| | The Common Good Public License 1.0 BETA |
| | Many people have made generous contributions to the wide range of software distributed through that system in reliance on consistent application of that system; it is up to the author/donor to decide if he or she is willing to distribute software through any other system and a licensee cannot impose that choice. | | | Any action or suit relating to this License may be brought only in the courts of a jurisdiction wherein the Licensor resides or in which Licensor conducts its primary business, and under the laws of that jurisdiction excluding its conflict-of-law provisions. | | | The Common Good Public License seeks to do the opposite by securing an Original Work's wide spread distribution, modification, and use by as many people as possible. |
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http://www.cgpl.org
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| | A global public good |
| | But there are for the most part no mechanisms for promoting and defending the public domain of knowledge, little thought having been given to what might be called "global public goods" (1). | | | Both technological research and cultural production feed primarily on knowledge shared by the whole of society. | | | But the matter needs to be discussed urgently if we are to put a stop to the sequestration of knowledge by private interests (see articles by Philippe Quéau and Martine Bulard). |
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http://mondediplo.com/2000/01/12a
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| | Editor's Cut |
| | A new report by the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy attempts to turn the conversation on its head with a well-documented report arguing that protecting immigrants' rights in the workplace benefits all middle-class and aspiring middle-class Americans. | | | "When this is all over, this will be bigger than [any government scandal] in the last 50 years, both in the amount of people involved and the breadth to it," Stan Brand, a former U.S. House counsel who specializes in representing public officials accused of wrongdoing, told Bloomberg News. | | | This weblog will be more of a running journal recording thoughts on politics, reporting on events, and offering riffs and reflections on what's in the news and what's not (but should be). |
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http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?bid=7&pid=2118
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| | Good Reading - FCPL |
| | Receive e-mail notifications regarding Fairfax County Public Library events, activities and services by subscribing to the FCPLEASE weekly e-letter. | | | Staff members share their enthusiasm by suggesting a variety of titles to capture your interest and imagination. | | | You can be sure that you're meeting an immediate and specific need. |
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http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/goodreading.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good: Books: Stephen Young |
| | The Caux Round Table is creator one of the most well-developed and widely publicized codes of corporate ethics. | | | As an attorney, he sought to prevent diversion of $425 million of public proceeds of the tobacco settlement in Minnesota from the state& treasury into private pockets. | | | He has worked with the Council on Foreign Relations and consulted for the United States Department of State. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1576752577?v=glance
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