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Our knowledge of the public sector is so scant that we do not even have an accepted definition of the output of governments. In this chapter I suggest a definition that is consistent with and indeed inspired by the theory of public decision-making developed in subsequent chapters. Consequently, I depart from current accounting definitions but suggest a way of moving from the theoretically correct definition to the accounting ones since empirical work can only be based on the latter.
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© 1974 Albert Breton
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Breton, A. (1974). The Output of Governments. In: The Economic Theory of Representative Government. Case Studies in Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02387-5_2
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