low quality of animal food. Correction of this market failure is attained by taxing animal food output and subsidizing … animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more …

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 …

moral motivation. -- Altruism ; externality ; moral motivation ; motivation crowding ; Pareto efficiency ; regulation …

-linked individuals take to avoid an accident increases with the degree of altruism. If the degree of altruism is sufficiently high, an … economy with nonmarket insurance yields higher social welfare than an economy without nonmarket insurance. As altruism …

Many individuals have empathetic feelings towards animals but frequently consume meat. We investigate this "meat … form self-serving beliefs about the suffering of animals caused by meat consumption in order to alleviate the guilt … relationship between individuals' taste for meat and their propensity to engage in self-deception, a high price elasticity of …