Chapter 49 Public Action for Public Goods

Handbook of Development Economics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 3117-3154

  Banerjee, Abhijit ^a   Iyer, Lakshmi ^b   Somanathan, Rohini ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

collective action; public goods

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149183127     PISSN: 15734471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4471(07)04049-1     Document Type: Review

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