In his seminal 1974 paper, ‘The Lighthouse in Economics’, 1991 Nobel Prize winner Ronald Coase criticised J.S. Mill and Arthur Pigou and others who argued that lighthouses were an essential public good that could only ever be provided by government because of the difficulty of charging free-riding ships far out at sea. Coase pointed to …
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