"Gorman and Musgrave are Dual: An Antipodean Theorem on Public Goods" by Ted Bergstrom

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Gorman and Musgrave are Dual: An Antipodean Theorem on Public Goods

Economics Letters (1981)

Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard Cornes

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Abstract

This paper finds the conditions under which an allocation branch can determine the efficient amount of public goods to produce, independently of the distribution of private goods. The result is similar to that found in our Econometrica paper, but uses a quite different method--solving a differential equation.

Keywords

public goods,
independence of income distribution,
Gorman polar form,
duality

Disciplines

Economics

Publication Date

July, 1981

Citation Information

Ted Bergstrom and Richard Cornes. "Gorman and Musgrave are Dual: An Antipodean Theorem on Public Goods" Economics Letters Vol. 7 Iss. 4 (1981)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ted_bergstrom/80/