Abstract
The genealogy of the term ‘user fees’ (or, synonymously, ‘user charges’) is neither long nor coherent. Neither Marshall nor Pigou appears to have used the term. The term was in common usage in the USA during the early post-World War II years; see e.g. Stockfisch (1960). Throughout its short history, the term seems to have been employed much more frequently in the United States than elsewhere. Since about 1970, the term has appeared in the indexes of most US public finance textbooks.
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Mills, E.S. (2018). User Fees. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1330
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