non-profits will often evolve into organizations that resemble workers' cooperatives. The primary check on this tendency …

public at large), however, may be unaware of the financial ties between some firms and non-profits - ties that are legal and … commentary made by firms and non-profits within U.S. federal rulemaking between 2003 and 2015. First, we show that, shortly after … comment. Second, when a firm comments on a rule, the comments by non-profits that recently received grants from the firm …

Economics and ethics both offer important perspectives on our society, but they do so from two different viewpoints … – the central focus of economics is how the price system in our economy values resources; the central focus of ethics is the …

because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the charities who, after getting the grant, reduce efforts of fund-raising … (fund-raising crowd out)? This is the first paper to separate these two effects. Using a panel of more than 8,000 charities …, we find that crowding out is significant, at about 72 percent. We find this crowding out is due primarily to reduced fund-raising …

awareness of the empathy-altruism link, rather than pernicious social costs of fundraising …