Introduction: the incentives to supply global public goods
Single best efforts : global public goods that can be supplied unilaterally or minilaterally
Weakest links : global public goods that depend on the states that contribute the least
Aggregate efforts : global public goods that depend on the combined efforts of all states
Financing and burden sharing : paying for global public goods
Mutual restraint : agreeing what states ought not to do
Coordination and global standards : agreeing what states ought to do
Development : do global public goods help poor states?
Conclusions : institutions for the supply of global public goods.
