ED CLARKE'S PUBLIC GOODS INDEX PAGE

See Ed Clarke's Home Page and Ed Clarke's Public Goods Home Page

as well as Clarke's Public Goods Applications Page


What's New? A reprint, with new updated material, of Clarke's 1980 book, Demand Revelation and the Provision of Public Goods (iUniverse Press, 2000). The book can be viewed by clicking on "Browse Before You Buy" at the publisher's bookstore and then by clicking on TOC (Table of Contents). Then click on individual chapter or section headings.

See Author's Main Web Site
Public Goods, Good Government


The website contains work on recent advances in public goods theory (a demand revealing process) and efforts to apply this theory, also embodied in a work in progress, entitled Confessions of A Geoist. See below.

See also Author's Public Goods Communities (NEW SITE)
Communities:Public Goods




A New Paper
(July,2000)

"Waiting for Turgot: Tales of Political Economy"


See also
A Finder's Aid
, for a general guide to this and related webpages


See also
Links We Like for links to related pages


This page, PUBLIC GOODS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE, is intended as an index to my public goods homepage.

It includes several chapters of Coverdale's
Confessions of A Geoist
and an  "Afterward" to the reprint of my 1980 book, Demand Revelation and the Provision of Public Goods and subsequent papers on applications of demand revealing processes.

See also Links We Like for related sites.


Links to Coverdale's work follow: A Stroll With Edward Coverdale

Coverdale's Confessions of A Geoist Table of Contents


The Table of Contents provides access to:

--Preface and Forward
--Geoism and the Practice of Social Art
--Waiting for Turgot
--An American Romance: A Via Media Between Memory and Hope
--From Romance to Reality: The Practice of Everyday Life


A Public Goods Links Page provides links to:
Clarke's Epilogue and Afterward to Demand Revelation and the Provision of Public Goods (reprinted with added material by iUniverse Press in Y2K). See link above.


The Public Goods Links Page also provides links to Clarke's additional papers on Demand Revealing in Theory and Practice, including:
--Demand Revealing Reconsidered
--The Demand Revealing Governance of Enterprise
--Privatization, Regulation and the Demand Revealing Governance of Enterprise (PRDRGE.html)
--Airport Noise and Congestion , and
--Demand Revealing and Information Technology Management




WHAT's NEW: A recently published paper based on Chapter 5 of the "Confessions", entitled "Incentive Compatible Planning and Budgeting of 'Distributive' Federal Programs" published in Planning and Markets (1999)

The paper is also related to a paper on Airport Congestion and Noise: Interplay of Allocation and Distribution by W. Brough, E. Clarke and T. N. Tideman, published in the Transportation Research Record. (1995)


See my Public Goods Applications Page for other interesting applications.