- Title Pages
- Prologue
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- Defining Global Public Goods
- Intergenerational Public Goods
- The Political Economy of International Cooperation
- Case Studies
- Equity and Justice
- Equity in a Global Public Goods Framework
- Distributive Justice as an International Public Good
- Global Justice
- Market Efficiency
- Deep Integration and Trade Agreements
- International Financial Instability
- Environment and Cultural Heritage
- Montreal versus Kyoto
- New Strategies for the Provision of Global Public Goods
- Cultural Heritage as Public Good
- Health
- Global Epidemiological Surveillance
- Health as a Global Public Good
- Knowledge and Information
- Knowledge as a Global Public Good
- Global Communications for a More Equitable World
- The Public Face of Cyberspace
- Peace and Security
- Preventing Deadly Conflict
- Peace as a Global Public Good
- International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid
- Regional Public Goods in International Assistance
- Global Public Goods
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- About the Contributors
- Index
Defining Global Public Goods
Defining Global Public Goods
- Chapter:
- (p.2) Defining Global Public Goods
- Source:
- Global Public Goods
- Author(s):
Inge Kaul
Isabelle Grunberg
Marc A. Stern (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
People need both private and public goods for their well‐being. This chapter focuses on public goods, introducing the generic concept of public goods first, refining this generic definition, and identifying the distinguishing characteristics of global public goods. The main properties and distinguishing features of international public goods, including regional and global public goods can be grouped into two sets. The first is that their benefits have strong qualities of publicness – i.e., they are marked by nonrivalry in consumption and nonexcludability. These features place them in the general category of public goods. The second criterion is that their benefits are quasi universal in terms of countries (covering more than one group of countries), people (accruing to several, preferably all population groups), and generations (extending to both current and future generations, or at least meeting the needs of current generations without foreclosing development options for future generations). This property makes humanity as a whole the publicum, or beneficiary of global public goods.
Keywords: cooperation, externalities, global public goods, international cooperation, private goods, public goods, regional public goods
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- Title Pages
- Prologue
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Notes
- Defining Global Public Goods
- Intergenerational Public Goods
- The Political Economy of International Cooperation
- Case Studies
- Equity and Justice
- Equity in a Global Public Goods Framework
- Distributive Justice as an International Public Good
- Global Justice
- Market Efficiency
- Deep Integration and Trade Agreements
- International Financial Instability
- Environment and Cultural Heritage
- Montreal versus Kyoto
- New Strategies for the Provision of Global Public Goods
- Cultural Heritage as Public Good
- Health
- Global Epidemiological Surveillance
- Health as a Global Public Good
- Knowledge and Information
- Knowledge as a Global Public Good
- Global Communications for a More Equitable World
- The Public Face of Cyberspace
- Peace and Security
- Preventing Deadly Conflict
- Peace as a Global Public Good
- International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid
- Regional Public Goods in International Assistance
- Global Public Goods
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- About the Contributors
- Index
