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Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Naudé, Wim - 2023

The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...

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We Already Live in a Degrowth World, and We Do Not like It

Naudé, Wim - 2023

The Degrowth Movement calls for "degrowth" – a reduction in GDP in advanced economies – to avert an ecological crisis. This paper argues that the Degrowth Movement misses that the West is already in a state resembling degrowth – a Great Stagnation. This state of degrowth and its...

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Economic analysis of charitable donations

Kang, Moon Young; Park, Byungho; Lee, Sanghak; Kim, Jaehwan - In: Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging … (2016) 2, pp. 40-57

This paper examines the effect of message characteristics on donation behavior using an economic model of giving. The utility of giving can come from one's own contribution and possibly from the combined contributions of others. Donors are assumed to be constrained utility maximizers, and the...

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Merit first, need and equality second: hierarchies of justice

Siemoneit, Andreas - In: International Review of Economics 70 (2023) 4, pp. 537-567

succeed than merit would. But both are governed by reciprocal considerations, and self-bindings help to interpret altruism as …

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Altruistic Giving and Risk Taking in Human Affairs

Stark, Oded; Balbus, Lukasz - 2024

The purpose of this paper is to provide a general proposition of the relationship between altruism and risk taking. As … cases, we find that altruism lowers risk aversion. The specific case in which the utility functions of the benefactor and of … characterization. We conclude that in terms of risk-taking behavior, a "population" endowed with altruism is uniformly more willing to …

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It Hurts to Ask

Benabou, Roland; Jaroszewicz, Ania; Loewenstein, George - 2022

We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...

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Social media charity campaigns and pro-social behavior. Evidence from the Ice Bucket Challenge

Fazio, Andrea; Scervini, Francesco; Reggiani, Tommaso - 2022

Social media play a relevant role in shaping social attitudes and economic behaviors of individuals. One of the first very well-known examples of social media campaign is the Ice Bucket Challenge (IBC), a charity campaign that went viral on social networks in August 2014 aiming at collecting...

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Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses

Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca; Fišar, Miloš; … - 2022

framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators’ prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …

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Oxytocin, empathy, altruism and charitable giving: Experimental evidence from blood donations

Jukić, Irena; Kovač, Dejan; Vuletić Čugalj, Danijela - 2023

altruism. We randomly assigned blood donors in the Croatian Institute for Transfusion Medicine to three groups with the aim to …

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Getting up to Speed: Informing Prior and Prospective Blood Donors about Supply Uncertainty and Hygiene Measures during the COVID‐19 Lockdown

Heynold, Anne Kathrin; Haylock, Michael; Ehmann, Stefanie - 2022

The already uncertain supply of whole blood from donors has been made even more volatile by the COVID‐19 pandemic. Potential reasons for the persistence of this shock are unawareness of the supply drop, and fear of infection while donating. The primary aim of this study is to test efficacy of...

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