On the Voluntary and Involuntary Provision of Public Goods
扩展了公共物品自愿私人资助的已有结论,指出仅关心自身贡献对总支出的影响这一假设存在不可靠的推论,建议重新审视个人捐款动机。
This paper extends pre-existing results concerning voluntary private funding of public goods. The assumption that individuals care about themagnitude of their own contributions only insofar as these contributions affect the aggregate level of expenditures is shown to have untenable implications. The analysis suggests that a reexaminationof the factors that motivate individuals to make contributions is in order. Copyright 1986 by American Economic Association.