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Social Efficiency and the Provision of Collective Services

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. Government inefficiency arises from failure of preference, production, and delivery The first occurs when government produces a different mix of collective services than is socially desirable; the second when government produces services less efficiently than it could at given cost levels; the third when the targeted beneficiaries fail to receive the intended level of services. A taxonomy of causes of each type of failure is developed and the conclusion drawn that some inefficiency is inevitable when collective services are provided. At issue is how much inefficiency should be tolerated when the gains to society from the provision of collective services outweigh the costs and how existing inefficiencies can be reduced to lower levels.

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  • Howard P Tuckman, 1984. "Social Efficiency and the Provision of Collective Services," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 43(3), pages 257-268, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:43:y:1984:i:3:p:257-268
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1984.tb01738.x
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    1. Rim Lahmandi-Ayed & Hejer Lasram & Didier Laussel, 2020. "Is partial privatization of universities a solution for higher education? A successive monopolies model," Working Papers hal-02988323, HAL.
    2. Rim Lahmandi‐Ayed & Hejer Lasram & Didier Laussel, 2021. "Is partial privatization of universities a solution for higher education?," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 23(6), pages 1174-1198, December.

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