Why cooperate? : the incentive to supply global public goods / Scott Barrett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrett, Scott (Professor of natural resource economics)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public goods.

International cooperation.

Physical Description:

xv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction: the incentives to supply global public goods

Single best efforts : global public goods that can be supplied unilaterally or minilaterally

Weakest links : global public goods that depend on the states that contribute the least

Aggregate efforts : global public goods that depend on the combined efforts of all states

Financing and burden sharing : paying for global public goods

Mutual restraint : agreeing what states ought not to do

Coordination and global standards : agreeing what states ought to do

Development : do global public goods help poor states?

Conclusions : institutions for the supply of global public goods.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-239) and index.

ISBN:

9780199211890

0199211892

OCLC:

85862526