Global Problem, National Solution: An Evaluation of Global Public Goods during COVID-19
Yüksel, Cihan
Globalist solution proposals for global public goods, which have both non-rivalry and non-excludability properties as well as cross-borderexternalities, emphasize collective action in the provision of these goods.However, the practice of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that the solutionto such a global problem is not so global. This situation necessitates a re-evaluation of the concept of global public goods. The COVID-19 pandemicis a public bad, and efforts to combat the pandemic are an example of apublic good. The global consequences of the said global public good alsoaffected other global public goods, and these effects required thedetermination of priorities in the protection decisions. The policies ofgovernments, caught between economic recession, political crises andhealth crises, have l...
Psychological and Sociological Factors Weakening Public Budget Awareness
Yüksel, Cihan
Public budget, which is the total of the expenditures made to meet the common needs of the society and of the revenues obtained to finance these expenditures, can be expressed with a “common wallet” metaphor. However, the main problem is, in case that public resources are not used correctly and effectively, why citizens do not show as much sensitivity towards their common wallets, as they show towards their personal wallets. It is important to examine the factors that weaken public budget awareness (common wallet perception) on the basis of behavioral economics, which is an area that observes the effects of people's attitudes, behaviors, and thoughts on economic-based choices and decisions and examines these observations based on experiments. For this reason, the main purpo...