This volume brings together 8 previously unpublished papers dealing with various modes of
allocating jointly consumable goods (i.e. public goods). The issues covered range from
voluntary contributions and price exclusion (market allocation) to positive and normative
analyses of different political allocation procedures for public goods. Given this wide
spectrum of allocative schemes for public goods there does not seem to be an easy and clear-cut
message from modern public-goods theory to public allocation policy.
