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Course: BBA
Subject: Business
EconomicsUnit: 1.2
Public Goods and Common Resource
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“The best things in life are free. . .”
• Free goods provide a special challenge for economic analysis.
• Most goods in our economy are allocated in markets…
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“The best things in life are free. . .”
• When goods are available free of charge, the market forces that normally allocate resources in our economy are absent.
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“The best things in life are free. . .”
• When a good does not have a price attached to it, private markets cannot ensure that the good is produced and consumed in the proper amounts.
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“The best things in life are free. . .”
• In such cases, government policy can potentially remedy the market failure that results, and raise economic well-being.
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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS
• When thinking about the various goods in the economy, it is useful to group them according to two characteristics:• Is the good excludable?• Is the good rival?
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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS
• Excludability• Excludability refers to the property of a good
whereby a person can be prevented from using it.
• Rivalry• Rivalry refers to the property of a good whereby
one person’s use diminishes other people’s use.
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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS
• Four Types of Goods• Private Goods• Public Goods• Common Resources• Natural Monopolies
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THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOODS
• Private Goods• Are both excludable and rival.
• Public Goods• Are neither excludable nor rival.
• Common Resources• Are rival but not excludable.
• Natural Monopolies• Are excludable but not rival.
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Figure 1 Four Types of Goods
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Rival?
Yes
Yes
• Ice-cream cones• Clothing• Congested toll roads
• Fire protection• Cable TV• Uncongested toll roads
No
Private Goods Natural Monopolies
No
Excludable?
• Fish in the ocean• The environment• Congested nontoll roads
• Tornado siren• National defense• Uncongested nontoll roads
Common Resources Public Goods
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PUBLIC GOODS
• A free-rider is a person who receives the benefit of a good but avoids paying for it.
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Some Important Public Goods
• National Defense• Basic Research• Fighting Poverty
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COMMON RESOURCES
• Common resources, like public goods, are not excludable. They are available free of charge to anyone who wishes to use them.
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COMMON RESOURCES
• Common resources are rival goods because one person’s use of the common resource reduces other people’s use.
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Some Important Common Resources
• Clean air and water• Congested roads• Fish, whales, and other wildlife
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• Source:• Manquee book managerial economics.• www.Slideshare.com• www.Wikipedia.com• www.Google.com