POL 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: World Wide Fund For Nature, International Whaling Commission, Epistemic Community
14 Mar 2017
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Indivisible = if provided at all, it"s provided for everyone. Non-excludable = no one can be kept from using it. Individual actors have no incentive to contribute to the provision of a public good. I don"t do it, everyone else does it, and i benefit from it. Speaking in class; cleaning up the environment; public schools, city parks. No one wants to be the one to provide (4409) the collective good, but everyone wants to and can. How to we solve this problem (of no one wanting to do it) benefit from it. There is no overarching govt in the international system. Everyone has an individual incentive to add 1 more thing so that they can produce more. But that"s a problem when everyone wants to dit. The idea that the collective interest is hurt by individual interests. Depleting resources: fulfilling interests in the short term is good, but bad in the long run, but individual actions are rational.
