Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy

• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of California Press 2019
• Subjects: Humanities; Economics; Asian history; History; General; Business & Economics; Asia
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Historically, for sustaining and reproducing their economic lives, people have obtained goods and services through various ways. How did people tackle issues that the market did not handle well? This volume compares early modern efforts to provide "public goods"-defined in contraposition t...