The paper outlines the essence of communal activities as an economic activity,
aimed at providing the essential services for the population to enable normal living
conditions in a particular area: natural and social reproduction of individuals. The authors
analyze the economic nature of utilities as a type of public goods with such fundamental
characteristics as special monopoly, based on the inability of the population to refuse these
services, a high social importance, local production and consumption of services. A network
of communal services in a territory is understood as a pool of service providers, regardless of
the form of ownership and the legal form of the organizations serving the population of a
local territorial entity. Dimensions and characteristics of a municipal complex are defined by
a set of various factors: geographical, demographic, economic, social, industrial and
environmental.
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en
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Willenberg Foundation - CTU
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utilities
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communal activities
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network of communal services in a territory
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municipal economy
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dc.title
THE ECONOMIC NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF MUNICIPAL ECONOMY
