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Roland N. McKean is Commonwealth Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, Rouss Hall, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA. The author is indebted to National Science Foundation Grant No. 76-11263 for supporting this writing and related work on “Direct vs. Indirect Regulation of Spillovers.”
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McKean, R.N. Free-riderism and consumer problems in the public sector a comment on Young's paper in JCP, 1, 1977/3. J Consum Policy 1, 392–395 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02179641
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