I don’t think such a comparison would make sense, since different public goods have different room for funding. For example the World Bank has a bigger budget than the WHO, but development/anti-poverty has a lot more room for funding (or less diminishing returns) than preventing global pandemics.
Do you have some example of a public good that you are using to calibrate your expectations about international spending on typical public goods?
I don’t think it’s enough to say: people do a tiny amount of X but they don’t coordinate explicitly. You should also provide some evidence about the overall ability to coordinate.
(That said, I also agree that most of what’s going on, for explaining the difference between real aid budgets and what a utilitarian would spend, is that people don’t care very much.)
Do you have some example of a public good that you are using to calibrate your expectations about international spending on typical public goods?
I don’t think it’s enough to say: people do a tiny amount of X but they don’t coordinate explicitly. You should also provide some evidence about the overall ability to coordinate.
(That said, I also agree that most of what’s going on, for explaining the difference between real aid budgets and what a utilitarian would spend, is that people don’t care very much.)