The institutional arrangement of public education: The puzzle of exclusive territories

John Lott

Public Choice, 1987, vol. 54, issue 1, 89-96

Abstract: This paper has demonstrated that publicly provided education has a unique institutional arrangement — the world-wide use of exclusive territories. A possible explanation has been advanced here, dealing with the use of public education in inculcating certain values in children. However, there are two different variations — the public goods variation and the cost of governmental wealth transfers variation — with radically different implications for whether exclusive territories increase or decrease general welfare. Given the vast resources devoted toward public provision of education, it is important that we understand why the institutional arrangements of public provision take the form they do. It is hard to accept the use of exclusive territories as a historical accident when it is so prevalent. Copyright Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1987

Date: 1987
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