诺贝尔经济学奖获得者保罗·萨缪尔森在其《经济学》一书中,一直把灯塔作为公共品的典型例子,并以此来定义并划分私人品与公共品的区别。而同样是诺贝尔经济学奖获得者的科斯则认为,英国的灯塔其实大多是私人建的,所以灯塔更像一个私人品而非公共品。虽然两个诺奖得主关于灯塔是否为 In his book Economics, Paul Samuelson, a Nobel Prize winner in economics, has been using lighthouses as a prime example of public goods to define and separate the differences between private goods and public goods. Coase, who is also a winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics, believes that the lighthouses in Britain are mostly privately built, so the lighthouse is more like a private good than a public good. Although both Nobel laureates are on the beacon