Why the Traditional Distinction between Public and Private Goods Should be Abandoned

Malkin, Jesse D.; Wíldavsky, Aaron

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“…That discussion will be empirical rather than prescriptive. Like Malkin and Wildavsky (1991), we believe that the physical characteristics of goods do not dictate particular institutional arrangements. Just because a good has certain characteristics does not mean that the state must provide this good.…”

Section: Goods and Natural Resource Conservationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Conservation and the nature of goods

Salazar

Lenard

1994

Society & Natural Resources

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A general article is research based, with a theoretical foundation that advances new knowledge for a study or provides theoretical insights and understanding into the relationships of people and the environment. These articles should have a sound methodology/research design and a well-developed analysis (data section). General articles should not exceed 25 double-spaced, typed pages, including all references, notes, tables, and figures.Conflicts within the conservation movement have reflected disagreements regarding the purposes of conservation. We offer the concept of goods as a means to analyze these purposes. Conservation may be understood as the management of ecosystems to generate a continuous or sustained provision of specified sets of goods. A political economy of natural resources that focuses on goods will assess the allocative and distributive consequences of conservation regimes. That is, it will examine what people want ecosystems to provide and how institutional arrangements are related to the nature of goods and the ecosystems that produce them. This mode of analysis is as useful for the conservation of biodiversity as for more traditional conservation purposes. An analysis of goods highlights the political implications of various conservation regimes.

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Section: Goods and Natural Resource Conservationmentioning

confidence: 96%

Conservation and the nature of goods

Salazar

Lenard

1994

Society & Natural Resources

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“…48±49). Malkin and Wildavsky (1991) have, perhaps unhelpfully, called for the distinction to be abandoned altogether. 3.…”

Section: Notesmentioning

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Public and Private Consumption and the City

Clarke

Bradford

1998

Urban Studies

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“…4. This is reminiscent of the failed approach in Neoclassical economics to technocratically determine which commodities are public goods and which ones are not (see for example Chang, 2001;Malkin and Wildavsky, 1991). 5.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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The Private Sector and Privatization in Social Services

Mehrotra

Delamónica

2005

Global Social Policy

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International audienceOne of the most significant developments in the 1990s in social policy in developing and transition countries has been the growth of privatization in health, education and water services - three basic services, which involve most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Welfare pluralism was very much a core element of the Washington Consensus. Despite the talk of the Washington Consensus being ‘dead for years', the international financial institutions have pushed for welfare pluralism in social services since the 1990s. This article critically scrutinizes the arguments and evidence that have been made in favour of greater private sector participation in these services. The article addresses what role the private sector could or should play in these services and is, thus, driven by practical policy concerns. For reasons of space, this article does not address the non-profit or nongovernmental organization (NGO) provision of basic social services (which, in most countries, is quite small in size)

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Why the Traditional Distinction between Public and Private Goods Should be Abandoned

Cited by 117 publications

References 32 publications

Conservation and the nature of goods

Conservation and the nature of goods

Public and Private Consumption and the City

The Private Sector and Privatization in Social Services

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