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Type	Working Paper
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	Reconfiguring essential and discretionary public goods
Organization Unit	Department of Economics (Florian Scheuer)
Authors	Friedemann Bieber Maurits de Jongh
Language	English
Institution	University of Zurich
Series Name	URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series
Number	29
Number of Pages	22
Date	2023
Abstract Text	When is state coercion for the provision of public goods justified? And how should the social surplus of public goods be distributed? Philosophers approach these questions by distinguishing between essential and discretionary public goods. This article explains the intractability of this distinction, and presents two upshots. First, if governments provide configurations of public goods that simultaneously serve essential and discretionary purposes, the scope for justifiable complaints by honest holdouts is narrower than commonly assumed. Second, however, claims to distributive fairness in the provision of public goods also turn out to be more complex to assess.
Official URL	https://www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:021f8791-3960-4d07-8ea1-7de1b5ec3c1a/29_reconfiguring-essential-and-discretionary-public-goods.pdf
Related URLs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266267123000329 https://www.urpp-equality.uzh.ch/en/Discussion-Paper-Series.html https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/236201/
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Keywords	Public goods, essential vs. discretionary public goods, honest holdout, distributive justice, economic efficiency