HLSC 3P21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Primum Non Nocere, Herd Immunity, Public Good
1 Feb 2016
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Values of individual freedoms vs. values of social good. Expenditure: funding to advance a position exhortation as well) Regulation: rules to encourage or punish actions. Public ownership: government directly runs an activity. Imposition of rules by govnt back up by penalties that are intended specifically to modify behaviour (deber and mah, 35) Constrain behaviour that may be seen as not in the public interest. Don"t think of good in contrast to bad but rather. Non-rivalrous: we don"t compete for it (air) your use doesn"t exclude someone else. Or non-excludable: someone does not control access to it. A provincial park: yes it is a public good. Clean water: no (if you drink a glass, someone can"t drink the same one) Clean air: yes (can"t limit access/exclude ppl from it) National defense: yes (not rivalrous, one person doesn"t benefit more than others)
