Excludability

First, I cannot find a principled distinction between "excludability" and "rivalrousness" that would apply to intellectual property, even should I accept that "rivalrousness" has a meaning independent of "excludability" not all schools of economics do. ❋ Unknown (2003)

BTW, education is clearly NOT a public good, as it flunks both the tests of non-excludability and non-rivalrous consumption. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Is it a better idea than eliminating the excludability of health insurance purchases from income and using the higher tax revenues to provide refundable tax credits to lower income households who purchase insurance, as I s ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

First, it offers a menu of club goods of varying excludability, with the most valued goods excluded from less-committed members. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The menu design reflects to an extent the costs of excludability of various religious goods, and the menu-monitoring approach implicitly allows some free-riding to dynamically foster commitment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rather than the Bush administration's proposal to make out-of-pocket expenses deductible via expanded medical savings accounts, I favor removing the excludability of health-insurance premiums from taxable income. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The four types of goods or amenities, according to their property of rivalry/non-rivalry and excludability/non-excludability are represented in Table 1. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Paul Hartzog has blogged at On The Commons on how technology can change the way we classify resources and can “blur the lines between subtractability and excludability.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

It is a public good with two attributes - “non-rivalrous competition” and non-excludability - meaning it is difficult to prevent others from enjoying its benefits. ❋ Unknown (2008)