The ends and means of public policy / Mark Fabian -- Behavioural theories and public policy / Uwe Dulleck -- Institutions matter : an introduction to the role of institutions in public policy / Julia Talbot-Jones -- Regulatory theories and frameworks / Elizabeth Bluff -- Why do we need...

"Mainstream economics offers a perspective on the gift which is constructed around exchange, axioms of self-interest, instrumental rationality and utility-maximisation - concepts that predominate within conventional forms of economic analysis. Recognising the gift as an example of social...