of society are centred around issues of altruism and selfishness. Experimental evidence indicates that human altruism is … altruists to defect. Current gene-based evolutionary theories cannot explain important patterns of human altruism, pointing …

laboratory experiment involving three different treatments of a sequential ``dictator game.'' Without disclosing the actual …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield … favors the second model of reciprocity with two-sided altruism. …