A GENERAL PROGRESS PROGRAM

The following sites contain papers relating to the "general progress program", designed to advance the general progress while avoiding misuse of the government's taxing, spending, and regulatory authority.

Relevant papers include:

A recently published paper in the new electronic journal at the University of California, Planning and Markets

 Incentive Compatible Planning and Budgeting of "Distributive" Federal Programs  

The foundations of this approach are detailed in a reprint and update of Edward Clarke's Demand Revelation and the Provision of Public Goods (iUniverse Press, 2000)

Public Goods, Good Government  This is a Website describing recent developments in the theory of public goods and applications of the demand revealing approach. See, in particular "the Afterward" in the reprinted book which is linked at this Website.

See also Geoism and the Practice of Public Economics -- School of Cooperative
Individualism Page
for the philosophy underlying this approach.

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