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Paul A. Samuelson is generally credited as the financial specialist who enunciated the cutting edgehypothesis of public products in a numerical formalism, expanding on prior work of Wicksell andLindahl. In his exemplary 1954 paper The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure,[8] he characterized apublic decent, or as he called it in the paper a "aggregate utilization great", as follows:[goods] which all appreciate in like manner as in every individual's utilization of a decent promptsno deductions from some other person's utilization of that benefit...A Lindahl charge is a kind of tax collection presented by Erik Lindahl, a financial specialist fromSweden in 1919. His thought was to burden people, for the arrangement of a public decent, asindicated by the negligible advantage they get. Public products are exorbitant and in the long runsomebody requirements to pay the cost.[9] It is challenging to decide how much every individualought to pay. In this way, Lindahl fostered a hypothesis of how the cost of public utilities should besettled. His contention was that individuals would pay for the public products as per the manner in
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Economics, Public utility, Erik Lindahl

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