The Economics of nonprofit institutions : studies in structure and policy /

Presents a collection of papers that generate insights into the voluntary non-profit sector and the private market economy

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies. Program on Non-Profit Organizations
Other Authors: Rose-Ackerman, Susan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986
New York : 1986
New York : 1986
Series:Yale studies on nonprofit organizations
Yale studies on nonprofit organizations
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • ^ The rationale for exempting nonprofit organizations from corporate income taxation / Henry Hansmann
  • Unfair competition and corporate income taxation / Susan Rose-Ackerman Nonprofit organizations United States. Nonprofit organizations Taxation United States.
  • ^ Why organizations turn nonprofit : lessons from case studies / Judith Manfredo Legorreta and Dennis R. Young
  • IV. The charitable deduction
  • The impact of the 1981 Tax Act on individual charitable giving / Charles T. Clotfelter and Lester M. Salamon
  • The optimal tax treatment of charitable contributions / Harold M. Hochman and James D. Rodgers
  • Charity and dynasty under the Federal tax system / John G. Simon
  • The charitable contribution deduction : a politico-economic analysis / Jeff Strnad
  • V. Government grants
  • The crowding-out effect of governmental transfers on private charitable contributions / Burton A. Abrams and Mark D. Schmitz
  • Do government grants to charity reduce private donations? / Susan Rose-Ackerman
  • VI. Fundraising
  • Charitable giving and "excessive" fundraising / Susan Rose-Ackerman
  • Should donors care about fundraising? / Richard Steinberg
  • VII. Corporate tax benefits
  • Introduction / Susan Rose-Ackerman
  • I. Government failure
  • Toward a theory of the voluntary nonprofit sector in a three-sector economy / Burton A. Weisbrod
  • Donations : can they reduce a donor's welfare? / Jeffrey H. Weiss
  • II. Contract failure and information asymmetry
  • The role of nonprofit enterprise / Henry B. Hansmann
  • Optimal nonprofit firms / David Easley and Maureen O'Hara
  • Non profit organizations : why do they exist in market economics? / Avner Ben-Ner
  • Transaction costs and a theory of the nonprofit organization / Michael Krashinsky
  • Public, private, nonprofit ownerhsip and the response to asymmetric information : the case of nursing homes / Burton A. Weisbrod and Mark Schlesinger
  • III. Entrepreneurship and professional control
  • Entrepreneurship and the behavior of nonprofit organizations : elements of a theory / Dennis R. Young
  • How nonprofits grow : a model / Estelle James