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 …

review the papers that have addressed the allocation problem using cooperative game theory. We also relate the rules defined …

with a non-empty core), if a subsolution of the core satisfies [indifference with respect to dummy agents, continuity, and … consistency] or [Pareto indifference and consistency], then it coincides with the core (Theorems 1 and 2). However, we also prove … with the core whenever the core is non-empty (Theorem 3). Finally, we comment on the difficulty in obtaining further …