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Scottish Journal of Political Economy
On the provision of excludable public goods: General taxes or user prices?
George Economides, Apostolis Philippopoulos

Paper Summary

The article compares different ways to pay for public goods/services. User prices can improve incentives and efficiency, but may not work well with strong social impacts or heavy subsidies.

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