期刊名称：Discussion Papers / University of Leicester, Department of Economics
出版年度：2001
卷号：2001
出版社：Leicester
摘要：Excl udabl e and congest i bl e sh ared go od s - cl ub goods (e. g. ,i nter net
access f aci l i ti es) - are m ore p reval en t t han Sam uel son i an publ i c goods.W e
con str uctan exam pl eto s how thattheopti mals econd- bestpr ovi si on l ev el
of a cl ub good m i ght ex ceed i ts ¯ rst- b est l ev el .Thi si sunl i ke t he usual
presum pti on w i th pure publ i c goods. W e argue that our ¯ndi ng ari ses
becaus e user charges can b e l evi ed on cl ub goods;the gover nm entneed not
i m pos edi storti onary taxes on other goods to ¯nance them . T hus,the onl y
practi ca ld i ®erence betw een t he ¯rst and second best i nacl ub econom y i s
t hati nf or mati on al co nstrai ntspr event the governm ent achi ev i ng the ri ght
di st ri buti on of i ncom e i nt he l atter
