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    It is not the case that Private provision of public goods can be undermined by competitors who free-ride on those goods.

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    • 1.When it is prohibitively expensive to charge individuals for a good, that good becomes a public good accessible to non-payers.
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    • 2.A competitor who does not provide the public good avoids the associated costs.
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    • 3.A competitor with lower costs can undercut the original provider's prices.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Mancur Olson's collective action theory demonstrates that rational actors systematically defect from cooperative provision when exclusion is impossible.
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    • 2.When defection is individually rational for all actors, the Nash equilibrium produces systematic underprovision regardless of aggregate social benefit.
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    • 3.Underprovision through Nash equilibrium collapse constitutes structural undermining, not merely contingent competitive pressure.
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    • 1.Samuelson's 1954 formal proof establishes that non-excludability severs the link between consumption cost and pricing signals that sustain private provision.
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    • 2.Without price signals, free-riders impose an externality that progressively erodes the cost-recovery capacity of any single private provider.
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