This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

: theory, econometric modelling, institutional analysis, data handling, estimation, inference, and interpretation. A large body … phenomena being studied. It also emphasizes the interconnectedness of theory, econometric modeling, data, estimation, inference … -- Chapter 4: Vernacular Knowledge -- Chapter 5: Data -- Chapter 6: Theory and Models -- Chapter 7: Description -- Chapter 8 …

economics over a variety of disciplinary contexts and provide new case studies illuminating this phenomenon. In featuring the … meaning can we attribute to the notion of performativity? What empirical evidence can help us recognize economics as …1 After the Turn: How the Performativity of Economics Matters; Ivan Boldyrev and Ekaterina Svetlova -- 2 Performativity …

wars than peace : Pareto and English economists -- 6. A Unitarian reading of Pareto's paradoxes in the theory of choice …There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the work of Vilfredo Pareto, one of the founders of modern economics …. This book reconstructs the genesis and significance of Pareto's theory of choice which is Pareto's greatest contribution to …