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This paper was published in the Journal of Public Economics in 1986. The paper is posted with permission of the publisher, who requests that we also post the journal's Homepage, which is http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jpubeco and the address of ScienceDirectTM at http://www.sciencedirect.com.

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ABSTRACT:
This paper was stimulated by a paper by Peter Ware, who used calculus first-order conditons to show that a redistribution of income that does not change the set of voluntary contributors leaves the supply of public goods unchanged. In general, redistributions can change the set of contributors and also the supply of public goods. But we show that even in the general case there are some remarkably sharp comparative statics results.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Ted Bergstrom, Larry Blume, and Hal R. Varian, "On the Private Provision of Public Goods" (January 1, 1986). Department of Economics, UCSB. Ted Bergstrom. Paper 1986B.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/bergstrom/1986B