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Externalities and Public Goods

Even the allegedly pro-market neoclassicals believe that externalities show market failure. Do externalities prevent the functioning of a truly free market?

National Goods Versus Public Goods: Defense, Disarmament, and Free Riders by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
A Theory of the Theory of Public Goods by Randall G . Holcombe
Fallacies of the Public Goods Theory and the Production of Security by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Pareto Optimality, External Benefits and Public Goods: A Subjectivist Approach by Barry P. Brownstein
Of Private, Common, and Public Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Nonexcludability and Government Financing of Public Goods by Karl T. Fielding
"Collective Goods" and "External Benefits": Two Arguments for Government Activity by Murray N. Rothbard
The Failure of Market Failure. Part I. The Problem of Contract Enforcement by Anthony de Jasay
The Failure of Market Failure. Part II. The Public Goods Dilemma by Anthony de Jasay
Public Goods and Private Solutions in Maritime History by Larry J. Sechrest
Can Dikes Be Private?: An Argument Against Public Goods Theory by Philipp Bagus

Efficiency and Externalities in an Open-Ended Universe by Roy Cordato
The Free Rider as a Basis for Government Intervention by E. C. Pasour
Solving the "Problem" of Free Riding by Ben O'Neill
The End of the Externality Revolution by A. H. Barnett and Bruce Yandle
Accounting for the Unaccountable: The Case of Externalities by Predrag Rajsic
What is an Externality? by Gene Callahan
The "Externalities" Argument by Stephen P. Halbrook
Public Goods and Externalities: The Case of Roads by Walter Block
Public Goods and Externalities by Tyler Cowen
Externalities by Bryan Caplan
Private Solutions to Positive Externalities: Military Expenditures, Insurance, and Call Options by Robert P. Murphy
Externalities, Conflict, and Offshore Lands: Resolution Through the Institutions of Private Property by John Brätland
Pollution Externalities: Social Cost And Strict Liability by Peter Lewin
Why Externalities Are Not a Case of Market Failure by Brian P. Simpson
Toward a Deconstruction of Utility and Welfare Economics by David Gordon