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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Public Goods

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INTRODUCTION
PUBLIC GOODS
Public good is an item whose consumption is determined by society not by individual consumers. Examples include national defense, law enforcement, parks. These goods are financed by taxes because they are created for the welfare of public. Basically the goods which can be consumed without reducing its availability to other individual and the other one is not excluded are public goods. The vice versa of these goods are private goods. A private good is a product that must be purchased to be consumed and its consumption is done by one individual. For instance, candies: the person who would be purchasing them , would be having not the person did not purchased.
A public good is an item consumed by society as a whole, for instance defense. This would be for every citizen for the country, even the person who did not pay the tax. This gives us the one characteristic of public good that is NON- EXCLUDABLE. These goods are being produced for the welfare of the whole society rather than focusing on one individual. While …show more content…

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