Issues of public goods in a multi-functional development of rural areas
2013
Brelik, A., West Pomeranian Univ. of Technology in Szczecin (Poland). Faculty of Economics | Matuszczak, A., Poznan Univ. of Economics (Poland). Faculty of Economics
The paper reviews the concept of public goods, indicating its various dimensions. The fundamental objective of the paper is conceptualising public goods and answering a question whether agritourism can be treated as a public commodity based on multi-functional characteristics of agriculture. The lack of such studies also raises several essential issues and proposes objectives for this study: 1) to represent the main issues of public goods; and 2) to answer a question whether agritourism can be treated as a public commodity in a multifunctional development of rural areas. The following research methods were employed in the present research: monographic and descriptive methods, analysis and synthesis, and induction and deduction. Findings of foreign scientists were also used in the research, since there is a lack of scientific studies of agritourism as a provider of public goods.
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