Information problems of public goods production

The article is devoted to the problems of creating public goods, caused by the information asymmetry between the participants of this process. We consider the conditions for achievement of the optimum volume of public-goods production. It has been revealed that its effectiveness is influenced by three groups of problems: the problems that impede determining true preferences of the consumers of public goods; the problems of motivating state agents to optimal satisfaction of their needs; the problems of effective work with the information from the bureaucratic apparatus. At the same time, the first group is connected with information asymmetry in favor of the population, and the second - in favor of state agents. In addition, the article reveals the theoretical approaches to solution of these problems and shows their limitations. In particular, it is noted that one of the main factors of information effectiveness of the governmental activity is the work of independent mass media.