The Price of Prestige

94 chapter four giving — a sense of personal satisfaction experienced by the donor (see also Arrow 1971 ; Andreoni 1995 a, 1995 ...

a contest of beneficence 95 collective security arrangements and provides the raison d’être for United Nations peacekeeping oper ...

96 chapter four force, how can we account for inconsistencies across policy areas? Some of the most frequent participants in UN ...

a contest of beneficence 97 these recipients thirty- six received less than 0. 1 percent of the Norwe- gian aid budget (most of ...

98 chapter four is to provide collective welfare, we should be most interested in the provi- sion of the good rather than the id ...

a contest of beneficence 99 did not encourage free riding but instead triggered a contest of benefi- cence. Only if the helper b ...

100 chapter four Prosociality as Conspicuous Consumption The conspicuous consumption model provides a simple answer to the pro- ...

a contest of beneficence 101 (Bain et al. 1999 ; Goodman 1999 ). Observers note that President Carlos Menem and his advisers bel ...

102 chapter four theoretical grounding. The same is true for conspicuousness. Many pro- social endeavors show a strong preferenc ...

a contest of beneficence 103 principle in order to develop an explanation for altruism. They argue that altruistic behavior help ...

104 chapter four If a contribution is critical in providing a public good... the donation might be perceived as entirely selfish ...

a contest of beneficence 105 The first ones to be pushed out of the philanthropy game are the poorest of the real altruists. Bec ...

106 chapter four communication, social bonds, and hierarchical structures regardless of the material value of the gift (Offer 19 ...

a contest of beneficence 107 Patterns of gift exchange are a good example of the social signals at- tached to receiving or givin ...

108 chapter four in times of need. In a similar way even weaker actors can try to gain prestige by refusing help or by offering ...

a contest of beneficence 109 the relative ranking of the actors. It helps in fleshing out deference and subordination and establ ...

110 chapter four through fighting use a very costly process for signaling their status and capabilities. The use of threats and ...

a contest of beneficence 111 kinds, are gained in a “war of property,” just as they are in a real war, or through chance, inheri ...

112 chapter four Japan, upon which were imposed severe limitations on its ability to use vi- olence, was forced to search for al ...

a contest of beneficence 113 ( 1966 ) exploitation hypothesis, which predicts that smaller countries are likely to exploit great ...