Yesterday on the radio I heard that scientists from Harvard and UC San Diego showed that giving is infectious. In the game they arranged, if you were the only giver, you lost while everyone else gained a little. But if everyone gave, everyone gained a lot. Outcome of the study? When one person was generous, [...]
This is a compilation (under construction) of academic studies and experiments that have implications for philanthropy. Pick and choose whichever study you want to support the theory you’ve got and ignore the rest. (Please don’t actually do that. Thank you.) Neurobiology Jordan Grafman, Jorge Moll, Frank Krueger: “Human Fronto-Mesolimbic Networks Guide Decisions About Charitable Donation.“ [...]
There’s two ways for us to think about our stuff. One way is to think that we own it. Right now, you’re thinking: Um. Duh. Ownership is so obvious, so prevalent, so common in a society like ours that we frequently don’t even recognize that there is another way of considering our stuff. Everything I [...]
Tags:capitalism·economics·Thanks again to Lewis Hyde for this post
