Religiosity as a public good.
Public Goods can be seen as one important way in which societies sustain themselves over time. These are part of the puzzle of the development of political order. Public goods like the rule of law are non-substractable and non-excludable. For economists the classic textbook examples are national def...
| Publicado en: | Politics & the Life Sciences Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 2 - 13 |
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Association for Politics & the Life Sciences
September 2008
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