20 Public Goods and Common Resources Private goods Artificially scarce goods Common resources Public goods Rival in consumption Nonrival in consumption Excludable Non- excludable
Supplier cannot prevent consumption by people who don’t pay for it. airport security fireworks shows The market tends to underproduce nonexcludable goods. Tickets $10 Nonexcludable Goods
What a dump! I hope someone picks up this stuff. Free-Rider Problem
More than one person can consume the same unit of the good at the same time. Nonrival in Consumption Output Price ($) MC Demand perfect competition would drive the price to zero