Why cooperate?
Subtitle: the incentive to supply global public goods
By: Scott Barrett.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199211890
Subjects: Public goods.; International cooperation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: List of figures; List of tables; Foreword / by Ernesto Zedillo; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: the incentives to supply global public goods; Single best efforts: global public goods that can be supplied unilaterally or minilaterally; Weakest links: global public goods that depend on the states that contribute the least; Aggregate efforts: global public goods that depend on the combined efforts of all states; Financing and burden sharing: paying for global public goods; Mutual restraint: agreeing what states ought not to do; Coordination and global standards: agreeing what states ought to do; Development: do global public goods help poor states?; Conclusions: institutions for the supply of global public goods; Endnotes; References; Index.