AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 1: Markets and market failure

4.1.8.3 Public, Private and Quasi-public Goods

Also AQA AS 7135: 3.1.5.3

Everything you need for questions on public, private and quasi-public goods, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.

What's on this sheet

  1. Two characteristics
  2. The free-rider problem
  3. Examples
  4. Calculations
  5. Classic question: should the government provide all public goods?
  6. The tragedy of the commons
  7. Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
  8. Separate answer key

The lesson in seven steps

  1. Light up the lane
  2. Sort the goods
  3. Technology and crowds
  4. Public goods trainer
  5. Who should provide public goods?
  6. Build the chain
  7. Exam practice

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