Organizations and efficiency in public services: The case of English lighthouses revisited.
Foundational debates about public service provision originate with the study of private lighthouses in England and Wales. We provide a new empirical assessment of cost and technical efficiency of competing lighthouse organizations in the early 1800s. Those with more private control charged ships hig...
| Publicado en: | Economic Inquiry Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 975 - 995 |
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Apr2022
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