Rutherford, Alasdair - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 17 (2010) 4, pp. 1031-1046
Over the past 40 years the development of economic theories of charitable organisations has closely followed the literature on altruism. This paper argues that the debate around altruistic behaviour sparked by Richard Titmuss's analysis of the economics of blood donations in 1970 led to a...