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The Study On The Supply Mechanism Of Public Goods

Posted on:2004-11-13Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H XiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360092998625Subject:Political economy
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The supply of public goods comes from people's common demands and public benefits. As a carrier of human public benefits, public goods are important access to meet the public demands and benefits. To build an overall well-to-do society in China depends not only on the abundance of private goods, but also on the rich and effective supply of public goods, which provides basic platforms for the supply of private goods, and promotes the development of social welfare of the mankind.The author puts forward the following opinions by using the frame of Institutional Analysis and Public Policy (IAPP). The features of public goods, that are commonweal, non-exclusive, non-competitive, indivisible and difference of people's demands on public goods, require the pluralistic supply of public goods. Only after building a pluralistic and complex mechanism of supply can we realize abundant and effective supply and sustainable development.This academic and institutional basis of pluralistic supply of public goods are derived from the classification theory of social structure in sociology, the theory of supply and demand in economics and the theory of cooperative game.The mechanism of government supply of public goods is based on the motivation and action of the "civil servants" that protect public interests, and fulfill the role of governance and management. The supply of public goods by the government aims at keeping a social order, and improving public benefits. The market supply of public goods comes from the "government failure", the motivation of profit organizations and individual "economic persons", and extra demands of consumers for public goods. When profits of public goods excel costs, there exists the motivation of voluntary supply. The existence of "market failure" and "government failure" creates the needs of voluntary affairs mechanism, which involves voluntary participation, supply of public affairs service and social assessment. The motivation of voluntary affairs mechanism is based on the voluntary participation of "public persons", who are driven by missions and obligations, and is formed and strengthened by "cultural persons". The development of civil society in modern society is the social basis of voluntary mechanism.The hypothesis that "civil servants", "economic persons" and "public persons" respectively act as driving forces for mechanism of government, market and voluntary provides an analysis method for the research on supply of public goods. But any humanity hypothesis has its own demerit. Therefore, only by regulating people through "economic persons", guiding and shaping through "civil servants" and "public persons" can human society realize harmonious states.Any supply mechanism or system arrangement in reality has advantages and disadvantages. To build a complex system, i.e., a system that combines government compulsory mechanism, market mechanism and voluntary mechanism, is a basis and prerequisite for the sustainable development of the supply of public goods.
Keywords/Search Tags:Public Goods, Supply Mechanism, System Arrangement, Government, Market, Voluntary Affairs
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