The purpose of this article is to generalize the Lipsey-Lancaster "mixed
economy" example in order to establish the second-best pricing rules exactly.
We establish the required assumptions concerning the relationship between
the monopoly and the competitive industry. We also establish a partial characterization of the second-best optimum. The general principles developed in the
article can be applied to a number of other public sector problems.
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