The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and Altruism

by Ythier, Jean Mercier; Kolm, Serge-Christophe; Gerard-Varet, Louis-Andre

• ISBN13: 9780312229566
• ISBN10: 0312229569
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Reciprocity is a pervasive type of social interaction in encounters, groups and organizations. This volume gathers basic recent works in its main domains such as the theory of reciprocity, the public economics of transfers, the economics of the family, charities, gifts of organs, or the motivations for gift-giving. The book constitutes a landmark in this rapidly expanding field of research.

Author Biography

Jean Mercier Ythier teaches at the University of Marseille. Serge-Christophe Kolm is Director and Professor and Louis-AndrT GTrard-Varet is Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris.

Table of Contents

The International Economic Association	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of Contributors	x
Introduction: The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and Altruism	1	(46)
Serge-Christophe Kolm
Part I Giving
The Common Property Nature of Market-inalienability	47	(31)
Emanuel D. Thorne
Preference Variation and Private Donations	78	(18)
Erik Schokkaert
Luc Van Ootegem
Gift Equilibrium and the Liberal Distributive Social Contract: A Tentative Synthesis	96	(19)
Jean Mercier Ythier
Part II Reciprocity
The Theory of Reciprocity	115	(27)
Serge-Christophe Kolm
Equity, Fairness Equilibria and Coordination in the Ultimatum Game	142	(11)
Claude Meidinger
Fairness and Retaliation	153	(21)
Ernst Fehr
Simon Gachter
Transfers, Empathy Formation, and Reverse Transfers	174	(8)
Oded Stark
Ita Falk
Things You Don't Give or Sell but Which You Keep: Valuable and Social Objects	182	(14)
Maurice Godelier
Altruism and Poverty in an African Context	196	(11)
Francois-Regis Mahieu
Part III Family
Intergenerational Transmission Models: A Survey	207	(19)
Anne Laferrere
Mutual Interest, Self-enforcing Constitutions and Apparent Generosity	226	(22)
Alessandro Cigno
Furio C. Rosati
Intergenerational Equity in a Model of Endogenous Growth	248	(12)
Claude d'Aspremont
Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet
Philippe Michel
Conflicts within Economic Dynasties: Selfishness versus Descending Altruism	260	(15)
Alain de Crombrugghe
Louis Gevers
Tax-transfer Policy with Altruists and Non-altruists	275	(10)
Philippe Michel
Pierre Pestieau
Strategic and Altruistic Remittances	285	(13)
Frederic Docquier
Hillel Rapoport
Reciprocity with Two-sided Altruism in Intergenerational Transfers: Evidence from Indonesian Family Life Survey Data	298	(16)
Lakshmi K. Raut
Lien H. Tran
The Nature of Tow-Directional Intergenerational Transfers of Money and Time: An Empirical Analysis	314	(21)
Yannis M. Ioannides
Kamhon Kan
Part IV Evolution
The Ecology of Altruistic Motivations in Triadic Social Environments	335	(17)
Angelo Antoci
Pier Luigi Sacco
Stefano Zamagni
On the Evolution of Altruism	352	(7)
Oded Stark
Efficiency and Stability of Relationships with Local Altruistic Commitment	359	(16)
Ottorino Chillemi
Benedetto Gui
Index of Names	375	(5)
Subject Index	380