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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mutual compatibility of the voluntary provision of a public good and the strategic behavior of consumers in the market for private goods. We study the existence of equilibrium in the private provision of a public good within a general strategic equilibrium framework with a finite number of players. The mechanism for the provision of public good follows that of Bergstrom, Blume, and Varian (1986), and the trading mechanism for private goods follows the strategic market game with wash sales of Dubey and Shubik (1986). The paper demonstrates the existence of an equilibrium point in pure strategies for a finite number of players. Due to the existence of trivial equilibria at which all markets are closed, equilibrium points are constructed as limits to sequences of ? - equilibria in perturbed games.Classification JEL : C72, D43, H41.