Beni comuni, beni pubblici e risorse ambientali: il ruolo dell’azione collettiva

Franco, Daniel (2012): Beni comuni, beni pubblici e risorse ambientali: il ruolo dell’azione collettiva. Published in: Territori No. 8 (April 2012): pp. 1-7.

Abstract

The pricing of non market services/goods is a mean to recognise their role in the decision processes of public interest. The choice of how to consider and handle to use the corresponding values is influenced by goods’ definitions assigned by neoclassical economics – common, public, natural resource, collective. The paper analyse limits and perspectives of the definitions based on the traditional individual preference model from the point of view of their utility in influencing the sustainability policies of a public body. The conclusion is that traditional definition does not really matter compared the utility of the per se estimate of the non market component a good governance.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Public goods, common goods and natural resources: the role of the collective action.
• Language: Italian
• Keywords: public good, common good, natural resource, collective action, public administration
• Subjects: A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values; H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H41 - Public Goods; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q58 - Government Policy

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