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PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES - The Market Provision of Social Services (Hardcover)
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PUBLIC GOODS AND PRIVATE COMMUNITIES - The Market Provision of Social Services (Hardcover)
Series: The Locke Institute series
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Do public goods and services, such as streets, parks and dams have
to be provided by government? In Public Goods and Private
Communities, Fred Foldvary's innovative application of public
choice and spatial theory to questions of urban economics and
governance shows how collective goods can be provided by agents in
a market process.Rejecting the market-failure hypothesis, Dr
Foldvary argues that an entrepreneur can provide collective goods
by consensual community agreements. Instead of focusing particular
services, as previous studies have done, this book concerns itself
with entire private communities. A series of case studies
demonstrates how real world communities, such as Walt Disney World,
the Reston Association in Virginia and the private neighbourhoods
of St Louis, are in fact financing their own public goods and
services in accordance with this theory. For such communities to
rise and prosper, the author contends, government must eliminate
restrictions such as zoning as well as the taxation of private
services. After considering the implications of his work for urban
economies - at a time when many of America's cities are plagued by
decay, violence and poverty - Dr Foldvary argues that prosperity
can be restored to cities if private communities are allowed to
develop. As an original response to an urgent, contemporary problem
this well-written book will be welcomed by social scientists,
policy makers and business leaders seeking solutions to problems of
urban decay.
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