Defining Public Goods

David J. O’Brien

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Abstract: Through the lens of an economist’s notion of public goods, David J. O’Brien analyzes the dual problems of declining communities and polarizing conflicts between metropolitan and rural communities. The author describes in detail how seemingly intractable community-level problems and inter-community conflicts have been substantially reduced by framing them in terms of the self-interest of a larger polity. O’Brien’s extensive community-level research experience in urban and rural communities that covers multiple historical periods, will appeal to inter-disciplinary social scientists, development specialists and persons looking for a hopeful, practical approach to solving the challenges of globalization.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; General Academic Interest; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
ISBN: 9781800885424
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Conceptualizing community within the public goods paradigm , pp 21-36

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Ch 2 Sources of resistance to defining community as a larger public goods problem , pp 37-53

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Ch 3 An institutional approach to building sustainable communities , pp 54-70

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Ch 4 Examples of top-down formal institutional adjustments on community sustainability and inter-community conflict , pp 71-94

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Ch 5 Location, informal institutions and social network effects on rural American community responses to globalization , pp 95-113

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Ch 6 Revisiting the quest for community , pp 114-138

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