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The Nonprofit Economy
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Burton Weisbrod
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English
Published/Copyright:
1988
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Nonprofit organizations are all around us. Written in a clear, direct style without technicalities, The Nonprofit Economy is addressed to a broad audience and deals comprehensively with what nonprofits do, how well they do it, how they are financed, and how they interact with private enterprises and government.
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This book should be read by anyone interested in the increasingly complex relationships in a liberal democracy between the public and private sectors. Its distinguished author has been conducting research on nonprofits for well over a decade, and he has now produced a first-class account of nonprofits in the American economy.
-- Alan Ware Journal of Public Policy
-- Alan Ware Journal of Public Policy
An engaging and very readable economic analysis of a form of organization that has been difficult for economic theory to handle. It is a useful source both of information and of stimulating hypotheses.
-- Bradford H. Gray Health Affairs
-- Bradford H. Gray Health Affairs
Weisbrod has written a provocative and valuable book. It gives new dimension to the debate over the relative roles of the private and public sectors in the American economy.
-- Steven Kelman New Leader
-- Steven Kelman New Leader
The public will profit if people in Washington pay attention to Weisbrod. His ideas offer policy-makers a rare advantage: they make sense.
-- Richard J. Margolis Across the Board
-- Richard J. Margolis Across the Board
As one who has been struck with the similarities in human motivation in different institutional settings, I might not be expected to like this book. But the book is so interesting, informative, and fair-minded that I like it a lot and recommend it to all.
-- Mancur Olson, University of Maryland
-- Mancur Olson, University of Maryland
The Nonprofit Economy is a major contribution to an important and neglected subject. The work is thoughtfully analytical, well documented, and clearly formulated. It will be valuable for years to come.
-- David A. Hamburg, President, Carnegie Corporation
-- David A. Hamburg, President, Carnegie Corporation
This is a challenging book on a topic of widely underestimated importance. Each of our lives is touched by an array of nonprofit institutions, all ostensibly established and managed for the purpose of serving the public’s many interests. Society manages nonprofits largely through a hands-off strategy that assumes they will do well enough if left alone. The Nonprofit Economy raises the compelling issues of the social governance of this diverse collection of vitally important institutions.
-- Herman B. Leonard, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
-- Herman B. Leonard, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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1. Nonprofits in a Mixed Economy
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2. Options among Institutional Forms
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3. Incentives and Performance
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4. Anatomy of the Voluntary Nonprofit Sector
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5. Charitable Donations
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6. Revenues from Sales
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7. Volunteer Labor
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8. Are Nonprofits Really Different?
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9. Recommendations for Public Policy
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Appendix A. Characteristics of the Nonprofit Economy
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Appendix B. The Nonprofit Sector around the World
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Appendix C. Financing Nonprofits
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Appendix D. Restrictions on Lobbying by N onprofits
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Appendix E. Volunteer Labor
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Appendix F. For-profit and Nonprofit Behavior in Three Long-Term-Care Industries
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Notes
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Index
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