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...

Most organ transplants are from dead donors. National transplant organizations exhibit considerable differences in terms of their donor population rates. Spain's organization is by far the most efficient in this respect. We argue that much of the productivity advantage of Spain's transplant...

La bienveillance est la vertu humaniste par excellence. D?importantes théories de la justice « sous le voile d?ignorance », issues des principaux courants de l?éthique humaniste des Lumières, excluent la bienveillance de la liste des raisons et motifs individuels sur lesquels elles...

We consider abstract social systems of private property, made of n individuals endowed with non-paternalistic interdependent preferences, who interact through exchanges on competitive markets and Pareto-efficient lumpsum transfers. The transfers follow from a distributive liberal social contract...

I consider abstract social systems where the distribution of wealth is an object of common concern. I study, in particular, the systems where liberal distributive social contracts consist of the Pareto-efficient distributions that are unanimously preferred to the initial distribution. I define a...

[fre] Équilibre général de dons individuels. . Nous étudions les propriétés d'un système social comprenant plusieurs agents, possédant chacun une dotation initiale en un bien de consommation unique (le revenu). Chaque agent est susceptible de consommer ou de donner tout ou partie de la...