High-performance organizations and economies work on the basis not only of material
interests but also of Adam Smith's “moral sentiments.” Well-designed laws and public …

Explicit economic incentives designed to increase contributions to public goods and to
promote other pro-social behavior sometimes are counterproductive or less effective than …

From free and open source software, through Wikipedia to video journalism, peer production
plays a more significant role in the information production environment than was …

We analyze in a survey study whether economic preferences and pre-crisis social
responsibility predict social compliance to the policy regulations. Results show that …

Human-induced climate change has become a prominent political issue, at both national
and international levels, leading to the search for regulatory 'solutions'. Emissions trading …

It is now commonplace to regard social norms as a subject of growing interest in the
economic literature (eg game theoretical approaches based on 'other‐regarding'individual …

This Chapter summarizes the overall facts about charitable giving. Charitable giving has
remained an active and important area within Public Economics. Then also discusses about …

Wikipedia has mobilized a collective of millions to produce an enormous, high-quality
encyclopedia without traditional hierarchical organization or financial incentives. More than …

Peer production is the most significant organizational innovation that has emerged from
Internet-mediated social practice. Organizationally, it combines three core characteristics:(1) …

Economic experiments are often used to study if humans altruistically value the welfare of
others. A canonical result from public-good games is that humans vary in how they value the …