merit good

good that would be under-consumed, if left to the free market forces
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merit good

Summary

merit good is a type of good[1]. It draws 24 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_good category, ranking #4 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • merit good's instance of is recorded as type of good[3].
  • merit good's GND ID is recorded as 4301637-6[4].
  • merit good's subclass of is recorded as goods[5].
  • merit good's opposite of is recorded as demerit good[6].
  • merit good's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04kgt2[7].
  • merit good's facet of is recorded as externality[8].
  • merit good's facet of is recorded as time preference[9].
  • merit good's facet of is recorded as incomplete information[10].
  • merit good's facet of is recorded as decision theory[11].
  • merit good's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/merit-good[12].
  • merit good's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as merit-goods[13].
  • merit good's STW Thesaurus for Economics ID is recorded as 11717-0[14].
  • merit good's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 203648153[15].

Why It Matters

merit good draws 24 Wikipedia views per month (type_of_good category, ranking #4 of 6).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_merit-good_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{merit good}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/merit-good}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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