The term meritorisches property (meritorisch - becomes outdated for "„deservingly "“) designates in the economic science a property, which donates from social view a large economic use and therefore by national side be promoted should, since it is produced and/or is not consumed not in sufficient measure. One inquires to little from the individuals, because either the use of the property does not admit is, or because of a wrong evaluation of future needs (time preference rate). It can be distinguished from the demeritorischen property, which too strongly one inquires. At meritorischen and/or demeritorischen goods it acts around an interference into the consumer sovereignty Individuen.Meritori goods ranks oneself among the impure public goods.

Reasons can be

• intended security of the citizens (e.g. Social security and KfZ liability)
• Creation of better living conditions (e.g. Education, accumulation of assets)
• Health (e.g. Inoculation).

The term can also imply that the individual does not recognize the value of the property (directly and/or completely), or these only at expiration of a certain time interval reveals itself to it.

A state paternalistisch acting in the positive sense is subordinated by the proponents of such a policy. These and/or its participants promote therefore on their part the consumption of meritorischen goods, since they would like the individual opposite an information projection/lead to have mine and these to general well-being use.

Examples

Only the belt obligation could limit a certain kind of injury at the head drastically. Before the introduction of the belt obligation this was exposed to a ideologisierten criticism, which turned out looking back as little convincingly.

Further examples:

• publicly legal broadcast
• legal age precaution
• social housing construction
• subsidized hospitals
• subsidized age and nursing homes
• Sport
• Youth support
• Inoculation/protection from Pandemien
• Culture
• (formerly private) infrastructure, e.g. roads
• Environmental protection
• Drug prevention

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