scholarly journals A Greater Price for a Greater Good? Evidence that Consumers Pay More for Charity-Linked Products

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W Elfenbein ◽  
Brian McManus
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Good Evidence ◽  
Charitable Donations ◽  
Closing Price ◽  
Green Production ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
Charity Auctions ◽  
Analyze Data

To study whether consumers will pay more for products that generate charitable donations, we analyze data from eBay on charity and noncharity auctions of otherwise identical products. Charity prices are 6 percent higher, on average, than noncharity prices. Bids below the closing price are also higher, as are bids by individuals bidding on identical charity and noncharity products. Bidders appear to value charity revenue at least partially as a public good, as they submit bids earlier in charity auctions, stimulating other bidders to bid more aggressively. Our results help explain why firms may pledge charitable donations, green production, or similar activities. (JEL D12, D44, D64, L81, M14, M31)

scholarly journals A Greater Price for a Greater Good? Evidence that Consumers Pay More for Charity-Linked Products

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Elfenbein ◽  
Brian McManus
Keyword(s):  
Good Evidence ◽  
Greater Good

Drug policy and the public good: evidence for effective interventions

The Lancet ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 379 (9810) ◽  
pp. 71-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Strang ◽  
Thomas Babor ◽  
Jonathan Caulkins ◽  
Benedikt Fischer ◽  
David Foxcroft ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Good Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Interventions

13. Lawyers’ social responsibilities

Legal Ethics ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
Pro Bono ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
Professional Codes

This chapter examines the responsibilities that lawyers have to society and the greater good. While the professional codes tend to focus on duties to clients, there are some limited duties to the public good. These are found in the duties under the criminal law, and the broader duty to the court and justice system. Lawyers also recognise an obligation to the greater good by means of their pro bono work. However, this is not undertaken by every lawyer.

Fundraising to a real-life public good – evidence from the laboratory

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuval Arbel ◽  
Ronen Bar-El ◽  
Yossef Tobol
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Good Evidence

The behavioral response to voluntary provision of an environmental public good: Evidence from residential electricity demand

2012 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 946-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant D. Jacobsen ◽  
Matthew J. Kotchen ◽  
Michael P. Vandenbergh
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Behavioral Response ◽  
Electricity Demand ◽  
Good Evidence ◽  
Voluntary Provision ◽  
Residential Electricity

scholarly journals John Stuart Mill and the Contagious Diseases Acts: Whose Law? Whose Liberty? Whose Greater Good?’

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-279
Author(s):  
Jim Jose ◽  
Kcasey McLoughlin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Good ◽  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contagious Diseases ◽  
Harm To Others ◽  
Greater Good ◽  
Political Philosopher ◽  
Legal Fictions

Legal fictions are often used to lubricate the machinery of jurisprudence. One of these is the idea that laws created to restrict the liberty of some individuals or class of individuals in order to protect the public good are in effect outcomes of tradeoffs between abstract universals, namely liberty and the public good. A three way relationship is imagined in which law, liberty, and the public good are in creative tension. The role of the law in this three way tension is further imagined to be the mediator where it serves to calibrate this tension in ways that are also assumed to legitimate the intended outcomes in practice. In particular, where the outcome is the prevention of harm, then laws that curtail liberty must be seen not just as measures for the public good, but rather as necessitated by the potential effects of the very harm itself. The justification for this view is often traced back to the views of nineteenth century political philosopher John Stuart Mill, who famously expressed this in terms that have become known as the “harm principle”; specifically that “the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”

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