Decisions about the level and allocation of public goods in the real world are frequently made by representatives or trustees, rather than by the contributors themselves. We design and conduct an experiment to test the difference between contributions made by trustees vis-à-vis contributions...

A review essay on William Oliver Coleman, Economics and Its Enemies. Two Centuries of Anti-Economics, Houndsmills, Basingstoke (Hampshire), Palgrave, Macmillan, 2002, pp. ix+313, and Edward Fullbrook (ed.), The crisis in economics. The post-autistic economics movement: the first 600 days,...

Decisions about public goods in the real world are frequently made by trustees—individuals responsible for managing pools of contributed funds—rather than by the contributors themselves. We conduct a laboratory experiment to compare contributions made by trustees who play with other trustees...