Economists sometimes think about goods and services in terms of two defining characteristics: excludability and rivalry. In this lesson, we explore how these characteristics lead to four types of goods: private goods, public goods, natural monopolies, and artificially scarce goods (sometimes called "club goods"), and how markets are good at allocating some of these, but not great at allocating oth
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