The Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and

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.

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.

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Acknowledgements

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List of Contributors

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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

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