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Models to the issue of altruism which rely on externalities of well-being are rarely used explicitly. In this paper we … compare such utility-based approaches with the standard approach on altruism which is based on externalities of income …
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For many people "solidarity" has become a meaningless word used in slogans - too often used without leading to any economic consequences. We show in this paper conditions under which solidarity can be a powerful instrument. In a solidary action, an individual in a group contributes to a series...
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If a previously unpaid activity (donating blood) is paid then we often observe that this activity is reduced. In this paper, it is hypothesised that the price offered is taken as a proxy for the "market value" of the activity. Depending on how the actor valued the activity previously,...
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about the recipient type. To explain these puzzling results we reconsider Becker's [1974] theory of altruism, which assumes …, it turns out that his approach predicts in contrast to other theories of altruism - that some altruistic persons will … change their behavior as observed in our experiments. Thus, a kind of utility based altruism (and spite as its opposite form …
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