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Esteem, Norms of Participation and Public Goods Supply

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Festschrifts are an occasion for registering the esteem in which the honouree is held. Given Beat Blankart’s significant contributions to public economics over an extended career, we thought it appropriate for this occasion to write a paper on a public economics topic in which esteem figures as a major analytic category. In that sense, esteem here plays a double role — as content and as intent.

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Brennan, G., Brooks, M. (2007). Esteem, Norms of Participation and Public Goods Supply. In: Baake, P., Borck, R. (eds) Public Economics and Public Choice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72782-8_4

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