Reciprocity, Self-Interest and the Welfare State

By Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis. 2000

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The Economics of Fairness, Reciprocity and Altruism--Experimental Evidence and New Theories. (2005, background): “The motivational forces behind conditional cooperation are also likely to shape the structure of social policies that aim at helping the poor [Bowles and Gintis (2000), Wax (2000), Fong, Bowles and Gintis (2005a, 2005b)].”
Social preferences, self-interest, and the demand for redistribution (2001, background): “Reciprocity may produce related concerns (Bowles and Gintis, 2000).”
Preferences for Redistribution in the Land of Opportunities (2005, unknown): “10 The relationship between social mobility and equal opportunities is also stressed Benabou and Ok (2001b) and Bowles and Gintis (2000).”
The effect of macroeconomic and social conditions on the demand for redistribution: A pseudo panel approach (2013, background): “Individual-level theories in political sociology often point to ideology or self-interest as the driving forces behind between observable differences in the demand for redistribution (Bowles and Gintis, 2000; Rehm, 2009).”
Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods (2006, background): “Fong et al. (2004) even argue that “people support the welfare state because it conforms to deeply held norms of reciprocity and conditional obligations to others”.”
Age-Based Self-Interest, Intergenerational Solidarity and the Welfare State: A Comparative Analysis of Older People’s Attitudes Towards Public Childcare in 12 OECD Countries (2010, unknown): “Voting models in the tradition of Browning (1975) tend to present a gloomy picture of the redistributive consequences of demographic change as the elderly are predicted to increase the generosity of public pensions at the expense of younger generations (IMF 2004; see also Lynch & Myrskyla 2009; Mull”
Trust, welfare states and income equality: Sorting out the causality (2014, background): “Fong et al. (2006). Trust and trustworthiness are important not only for the formal social insurance systems ofmodernwelfare states, but also formore informal sharing arrangements.”
Walrasian Economics in Retrospect (2000, background): “…of policy measures addressed to crime, the environment, schooling, discrimination, and welfare reform now commonly treat preferences as endogenous, as do studies of the impact of markets and other modern institutions on indigenous cultures [Becker 1996, Kahan 1997, Bowles and Gintis 2000].”
Welfare Regimes and the Norms of Social Exchange (2004, background): “5 In the background to this perspective stands a growing literature emphasising the vital role of reciprocity within the welfare state (e.g. Bowles and Gintis, 2000; Falk, 2001; Mau, 2003; Ullrich, 2002; Wax, 2000; White, 1997).”
Public support for redistribution: what explains cross-national differences? (2010, background): “It is therefore argued that social policy preferences do not just respond to objective inequality but are mediated by ‘redistributive ethics’ (Bowles and Gintis, 2000) or social justice concepts.”