Optimal Provision of Public Goods with Altruistic Individuals

We study the optimal provision of public goods in the context of a special class of altruistically linked utility functions. We show that the usual Samuelson condition holds as if the utility functions were independent.

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Year of publication:	1996-07-08
Authors:	Ley, Eduardo
Institutions:	EconWPA
Subject:	Samuelson condition \| Pareto efficiency

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Public Economics.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Type of Document - Postcript; prepared on MacOS 7.5, Textures 1.7, LW 8.1; to print on PostScript; pages: 5. Forthcoming Economics Letters. 5 pages
Classification:	D6 - Welfare Economics ; H0 - Public Economics. General ; H4 - Publicly Provided Goods
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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