Impure Public Goods In Economics

IMPURE PUBLIC GOODSNameInstitutional AffiliationExpansion of the range of public goods is growing, mainly because some of the benefits that were previously private and consumed by a small part of the population, are now beginning to be claimed as public goods. In public sector theory, such benefits are defined as impure public (quasi-public), while traditional public goods are classified as pure. In economic theory, public goods are characterized by two properties that they manifest in the process of their appropriation and consumption; non-rivalry and non-excludability. Non-rivalry means that changing the number of consumers of a given good does not affect the amount of utility received by each of them. An increase in the number of consumers leads to an increase in the public utility of the good. Non-excludability is defined as the absence of restrictions on access to the consumption of this good, either because of the physical impossibility of restricting access to the good or because of the excessively high costs arising from the exclusion in comparison with the potential benefits. Non-excludability means that the