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Conduct an interactive lecture focusing on the characteristics of public goods. Use examples like national defense, street lighting, and public parks. Ask students to identify and discuss other examples in groups.

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Provide students with case studies of different public goods projects (e.g., vaccination programs, lighthouse services). Have them analyze and present their findings on whether these services meet the criteria of public goods.

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Introduction to the Case Studies | Public Goods, Public Gains: Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D | Oxford Academic

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Public Goods, Public Gains: Calculating the Social Benefits of Public R&D (Oxford Academic), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199729685.003.0005,

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Organize a classroom debate on whether public goods should be funded by the government or private sectors. Divide the class into pro-government funding and pro-private sector funding teams.

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Assign groups to research different public goods in their community or country. Require them to create presentations on the benefits and potential issues related to these goods.

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Public Goods (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Even though Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson is usually credited with
having introduced the theory of public goods to modern economics
(e.g., in Sandmo 1989), the origins of the idea go back to John Stuart
Mill, Ugo Mazzola (an Italian writer on public finance), and the
Swedish economist Knut Wicksell…

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Create online quizzes or Kahoot! games that test students’ understanding of public goods. Include questions about the key characteristics and examples of public goods.

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Play Kahoot! | Externalities, Public vs. Private Goods, and Income Distribution AP Micro Unit 6 Review

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Play this kahoot titled Externalities, Public vs. Private Goods, and Income Distribution AP Micro Unit 6 Review

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Have students create mind maps to define merit goods and illustrate their importance in the economy. Encourage creativity and the use of different colors and images.

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Organize role-playing scenarios where students act as government officials deciding on the provision of merit goods like education and healthcare. Discuss their decisions as a class.

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WHY CERTAIN GOODS ARE MERIT GOODS?? | PUBLIC ECONOMICS | LEARN OIKONOMIA

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Students perform a cost-benefit analysis of various merit goods. Provide them with data to analyze the economic and social impacts of goods like public healthcare or education.

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Show a documentary on the impact of merit goods on society (e.g., education in different countries). Follow up with a class discussion on the documentary’s content and its real-world implications.

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How to distinguish between merit goods, public goods, demerit good, and common pool resources?

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Conduct a class poll on which merit goods students believe should be prioritized by the government. Use the poll results to spark a discussion on the importance of different merit goods in society.

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