This chapter critically analyses contributions to evolutionary game theory by such writers as Robert Trivers, John … the passive altruism reflected in failure to harm. Second, that an evolutionary approach emphasizing group or multilevel … models in their implications. In particular, the justification by appeal to evolutionary theory for the standard economic …

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 …

Altruism, giving and pro-social conduct, and reciprocity, are the basis of the existence and performance of societies … (which they sometimes also create); and in charity and specific organizations. Altruism has various origins: it can be … hedonistic or natural altruism in empathy, affection, sympathy, emotional contagion, pity, and compassion; or normative altruism …

is more consistent with an experimenter demand effect than an explanation based on altruism towards the experimenter. A …

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 …

. In the model agents receive heterogeneous utility from pure and impure altruism (Andreoni 1989) that permits warm glow to … vary between monetary donations and volunteering, thus allowing preferences for impure altruism to rationalize inefficient … allocation decisions. We define a measure of the price of impure altruism as the additional proportion of income sacrificed by a …

minimum altruism, in which child labor in a given family is judged relative to a specific social standard. Under this … criterion, child labor is exploitative only in families where the parent (or guardian) displays insufficient altruism towards …

We study with a sample of 1,070 primary school children, aged seven to eleven years, how altruism in a donation … theories of reciprocal altruism that provide a cornerstone to understand human social behavior. We find that higher risk …-linear. We confirm earlier results that altruism increases with age during childhood and that girls are more altruistic than boys …