| Abstrakt: |
This article focuses on production, disbursement and consumption and presents modes and modalities of goods and services. Traditional approaches to the study of collective facilities have always sought a criterion, or several criteria, which would enable them to make a clear distinction between the "private" and the "collective", and, having been unable to find one, have resigned themselves to the idea of more or less "pure": "collective goods." Current terminology expresses this lack of agreement: collective goods, collective services, collective functions, market or non-market consumption, divisible or non-divisible entities.' Two completely separate literatures have analyzed government involvement in consumption; the collective consumption stream in urban studies and neo-classical economics' account of public goods. Both traditions have significantly converged in recent years, especially in recognizing a differentiated spectrum of provision in place of previous dichotomous categories. Collective consumption theories have poorly explained consumption process trends, but captured many of the key social and political causes of change. |
