Thanks for that reference! I hadn’t come across that before. I think the main difference is that for most of my post I’m considering public goods problems among people who are completely unselfish but have different moral values. But problems also exist when people have identical moral values and some level of selfishness. Paul Christiano’s post does a nice job of explaining that case. Milton Friedman also wrote about that problem (specifically, he talked about how poverty alleviation is a public good).
Interesting. Reminds me of this post by Paul Christiano on moral public goods
Thanks for that reference! I hadn’t come across that before. I think the main difference is that for most of my post I’m considering public goods problems among people who are completely unselfish but have different moral values. But problems also exist when people have identical moral values and some level of selfishness. Paul Christiano’s post does a nice job of explaining that case. Milton Friedman also wrote about that problem (specifically, he talked about how poverty alleviation is a public good).