Contents -- Prologue -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- OVERVIEW -- Why do Global Public Goods Matter Today? -- How to Improve the Provision of Global Public Goods -- 1.CONCEPTS: RETHINKINGPUBLIC, GLOBAL, AND GOOD -- Public Goods: A Historical Perspective -- Advancing the Concept of Public Goods -- International Aspects of Public Goods Provision -- Assessing the Optimal Provision of Public Goods: In Search of the Holy Grail -- Assessing the Provision Status of Global Public Goods -- 2.POLITICS: BRINGING THE PUBLIC BACK INTO PUBLIC POLI CYMAKING -- Political Globalization: Trends and Choices -- Governing the Provision of Global Public Goods: The Role and Legitimacy of Nonstate Actors -- The Governance of the International Monetary Fund -- Steps toward Enhanced Parity: Negotiating Capacity and Strategies of Developing Countries -- Getting to Fairness: Negotiations over Global Public Goods -- Combining Efficiency with Equity: A Pragmatic Approach -- 3.PRODUCTION: GETTING TO THE GOOD -- Creating Incentives for Cooperation: Strategic Choices -- Financing Global Public Goods: A New Frontier of Public Finance -- Institutional Options for Producing Global Public Goods -- Managing the Provision of Knowledge: The Design of Intellectual Property Laws -- 4.CASE STUDIES: APPLYING THE CONCEPT OF GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS -- International Financial Stability and Market Ef.ciency as a Global Public Good -- The Multilateral Trade Regime: A Global Public Good for All? -- Beyond Communicable Disease Control: Health in the Age of Globalization -- Global Trade for Local Bene.t: Financing Energy for All in Costa Rica -- Conserving Biodiversity: Reconciling Local and Global Public Benefits -- Problems of Publicness and Access Rights: Perspectives from the Water Domain -- Corruption and Global Public Goods -- Further Reading -- Glossary.

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