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The history of economics has always been changing from the ancient Greeks to the mercantilists to the neoclassic economists. Concepts and theories have been formulated to perfection only to be amended or even proven wrong. However, those concepts and theories have developed over time to inspire even greater thoughts on economics in which we know them today. One of those concepts is the concept of public goods. This concept has long been debated and still today is still relevant in our economic world.
The concept of what is known today as “public goods” was first attempted to be explained by economist Paul A. Samuelson. Samuelson is credited to be the first to attempt to characterize public goods in 1954 in a writing called The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure. He defines in his paper what he calls a “collective consumption good” as:
“…goods which all enjoy in common in the sense that each individual’s consumption of such a good leads to no subtractions from any......

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