... improved the paper. Any remaining errors are my own. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Richard A. Musgrave Paul A. Samuelson social goods public goods nonrivalry nonexclusion free riding References Atkinson Anthony B. 1987 . “The Collected Papers of Richard...

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..., part two.” The puzzle draws on the insight of Mancur Olson ([1965] 1971) that the law itself is a collective good generating shared ben- efits, which means that individuals face incentives to free ride on the effort to adopt such laws, and thus that property law itself suffers from a tragedy...

... and J. V. Price. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Iannaccone, Lawrence. 1992 . Sacrifice and Stigma: Reducing Free Riding in Cults, Communes, and Other Collectives. Journal of Political Economy 100.2 : 271 -92. Leathers, Charles G., and J. Patrick Raines. 1992 . Adam Smith on Competitive Religious...

... conditions includes several margins on which the market might fail to attain the “attainable-bliss point.”6 But Samuelson’s focus is on the problems that arise from collective consumption goods. For these, individuals can hide their true valuations, hoping to free ride on others. The free rider...

... the correct apportion- ment of the tax among beneficiaries” (175). The immediate consequence was that individuals have no reason to free ride but, on the contrary, should logically contribute and pay for the goods they consume. And, as another consequence, Wicksell’s theory was disarmingly simple...

... of apologiae emerged which concentrated on the theme that a public-goods problem (mostly involving expenditures for forts) justified the award of monopoly rights to the chartered companies. In this argu- ment, competition in foreign trade would have allowed free-riding on the provision of forts...

... centered on the Continental European contribution of joint- ness, lumpiness, or indivisibility combined with the generally accepted difficulty of exclusion, which generates free riding.18 Prior to Samuelson’s contributions (1954, 1955), little attention was given to the problem of public goods...

... a “compliance problem” (94): How are the rules enforced? Externalenforcement can’t work. If it’s centralized, who willcontrolthe con- trollers? If it’s decentralized, no individual would have an incentive to be an en- forcer: everyone will free ride. Successful compliance must be internally enforced...

... aspect of helping behavior; more specifically, he observed that since helping benefited not only the related but also the unrelated genes of the animal helped, there was an element of free riding on its side, which in turn encouraged the survival of the helped at the expense of the helper.11...

... and the Prisoners' Dilemma Quarterly Journal of Economics 100 ( suppl. ): 1073 -81. Tuomela , Raimo . 1991 . On the Structural Aspects of Collective Action and Free-Riding Theory and Decision 32 . 2 : 165 -202. Ullmann-Margalit , Edna . 1977 . The Emergence of Norms . Oxford: Clarendon...

... is properly placed by Persky. But to render Mill fairly also requires full-scale elaboration of his contribu- tion to the market-failure phenomenon—consumer ignorance, indiscriminate beneƒt, free riding—and to the legitimate role of state provision including in particular the widening scope...

... Frankfurt school, 232, 239 Ezekiel, Mordecai, 94 Free enterprise, 102, 110–11, 228, 239 A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis Free riding, 12–13, 151, 161–62, of ’08 and the Descent into 190, 192–93, 214n22...

... was a complex one in which neither side was homo- geneous. On the economists’ side, it is important to pay attention not only to rational choice theory but also to work, inspired by Mancur Olson, on free riding. There were also significant differences between work that emanated from members of the RAND...

... of others without himself contributing. But as there are no free rides for the society as a whole, the net effect of a setup that gives each man the incentive to act as a free rider is impoverishment of the whole. Social insurance is an institutional remedy to escape from this dilemma. Musgrave...

... luxury goods and necessities is pre- sented. As part of luxury consumption, on the one hand, art makes it difficult for society to efficiently and securely provide people with physical necessities such as food. As a component of social morality, on the other hand, art may counter free-riding and other...

... number of citizens exhibit genuine altruism. This is positional in that we cannot all behave in a parasitic fashion and free-ride on other citizens’ genuine altruism. 12. Hirsch suggests that political movements toward socialism, what he terms “reluc- tant collectivism,” are doomed to fail...

... in the badly depressed Lancashire cotton-spinning industry. A voluntary cartel agreement, which Keynes helped to organize, collapsed after one year because of the large number of free-riding firms that chose to remain outside the cartel (XIX:578-637). In a speech entitled ‘Liberalism and industry...

... should historians of economic thought take an interest in Chile? The reason is that the country has been the laboratory for a controversial experiment in free-market economic policies since the early 1970s. That experiment involved the brutal dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and Chilean economists...

...., that gave no incentive for households to reveal their true values)? Early experimental work by Peter Bohm (1972) and Smith (1979) seemed to imply that respondents did not free ride as much as Samuelson had predicted,10 and researchers sympathetic to the CV agenda such as Cicchetti and Smith (1973...