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Your own link describes roads as generally nonexcludable: Once a road is built, it is difficult to exclude people, although toll roads can exclude nonpayers.
by gascan 8y ago
Your own link describes roads as generally nonexcludable:
Once a road is built, it is difficult to exclude people, although toll roads can exclude nonpayers.
Taking the definition to the extreme makes it no longer useful. Yes, technically you could make a road exclusionary and rivalrous. But their nature tends nonexclusionary and nonrivalrous. "Public good" is really an observation about whether something is more suited to private or public ownership, rather than some kind of strict legal term.
- nanis 8y ago> Your own link describes roads as generally nonexcludable: Well, I did not notice that because one has to click to reveal that self-contradictory statement. In any case, that is a point against Khan Academy. "Public good" is not the same as "these days mostly financed by politicians shoveling money to labor unions and a few firms". Everywhere you look there are excludable roads. Everywhere you see traffic congestion, you see rivalry. Roads are not public goods, even if you feel like governments ought to own them.