Contents
Preface
Introduction / Edmund S. Phelps
Part 1
Gifts and Exchanges / Kenneth J. Arrow
Economics of Trust, Altruism, and Corporate Responsibility / Roland N. McKean
Business Responsibility and Economic Behavior / William J. Baumol
Comment / Guido Calabresi
Comment / Thomas Nagel
Part 2
The Samaritan's Dilemma / James M. Buchanan
The Indeterminancy of Game-Equilibrium Growth in the Absence of an Ethic / Edmund S. Phelps
A Mathematical Note / Wilfried M. A. Pauwels
Charity: Altruism or Cooperative Egoism? / Peter Hammond
Comment / Edward F. McClennen
Comment / Karl Shell
Part 3
Private Philanthropy and Public Finance / William Vickrey
Toward a Theory of the Voluntary Non-Profit Sector in a Three-Sector Economy / Burton A. Weisbrod
Toward a Behavioral Theory of Philanthropic Activity / Bruce R. Bolnick
Comment / Amartya Sen
Index