Proponents of the public goods argument (‘PGA’) seek to ground the authority of the state on its putative indispensability as a means of providing public goods. But many of the things we take to be public goods – including many of the goods commonly invoked in support of the PGA – are actually what we might term publicized goods. A publicized good is any whose ‘public’ character results only from a policy decision to make some (otherwise private) good freely and universally available. This fact poses complications for the PGA, insofar as the set of possible publicized goods is quite extensive indeed.

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关于公共物品（或公共物品论点的混乱）

的支持者公共物品论证('PGA') 试图将国家权威建立在其作为提供公共产品的一种手段的假定不可缺少的基础上。但许多我们认为是公共物品的东西——包括许多通常用来支持 PGA 的物品——实际上是我们可以称之为的宣传品. 公开物品是指任何其“公共”特征仅来自于使某些（否则为私人的）物品免费和普遍可用的政策决定。这一事实给 PGA 带来了复杂性，因为可能的公开产品集确实相当广泛。