This is a timely and thought-provoking book which brings the discussion of public goods to confront the contemporary world economy where such goods have often a

This publication addresses factors that promote or inhibit successful provision of the four key international public goods: financial stability, international t

A wide-ranging survey of the theory and evidence on public goods, presenting the main literature on public goods, both theoretical and empirical, in a systemati

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Vi

The book explores the core public tasks that the state has traditionally provided but which increasingly are being privatized and subsumed by the private sector