Economics of Reciprocity, Giving and Altruism

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Reciprocity is a pervasive type of social interaction in encounters, groups and organizations. Simple giving is one of the major ways of transferring goods. And others regarding social sentiments play crucial roles in the working and in the quality of society. This volume gathers basic works in the sujects’s main domains such as, among others, the theory of reciprocity, the public economics of transfers, the economics of the family, charities, gifts of organs, or the motivations for gift giving.