If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the…

The change in economic values created by the new markets for global public goods will reorient our global economy and under the right conditions…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging…

— Mo Ibrahim

Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.

— Bethany McLean

We can't afford to waste people. We can't afford to have people think the game is over before it's begun. We've got to be…

— Michael Ignatieff

“Hence, contrary to the conclusion arrived at by the public goods theorists, logic forces one to accept the result that only a pure market…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play…

— Bill Gates

In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods…

— Harry Boyte

Classic economic theories recognize public goods aspects of one kind or another - the need for economic intervention in, obviously, the supply of infrastructure…

— Kenneth Arrow

“China should significantly augment the foreign aid and public goods it provides, so it can use these as a bargaining chip in its efforts…

— Wang Yizhou

I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in…

— Nouriel Roubini

I think that markets classically fail in cases where there are public goods that provide benefits that people cannot capture. The big debate is…

— Peter Thiel

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need…

— Anna Lindh

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to…

— Mo Ibrahim

Care work produces public goods, and should be supported in families by policies such as paid parental leave and caregiver tax credits, and by…

— Riane Eisler

“Since money or other resources must be withdrawn from possible alternative uses to finance the supposedly desirable public goods, the only relevant and appropriate…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe