At 09:29 AM 5/14/98 +0300, Amalyah Keshet wrote:

>>Or put it that way: The tax payers pay for (non-profit) museums,
>(snip)
>
>
>Not always. There are innumerable museums which are not government funded
>and which are dependent upon earned income.
>
>Even those museums which are government funded are so funded in order to
>collect, preserve, exhibit and publish for the public good  --  not for
>private benefit  (i.e. an individual or company which  needs a certain
>photograph for their own publication).

But what is the "public good" if not the integrated sum of "private
benefits" and how many private benefits exist to benefit the "public good."
It is not so easy to break these categories down into discrete entities.


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