To Profit Or Not to Profit
To Profit Or Not to Profit

Author: Burton A. Weisbrod

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-05

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521785068

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Nonprofit organizations are increasingly resembling private firms in a transformation bringing with it a shift in financial dependence from charitable donation to commercial sales activity. This book, first published in 1998, examines the reasons and consequences of the mimicry of private firms by fundraising nonprofits. User fees and revenue from 'ancillary' activities are mushrooming, with each having important side effects: pricing out of the market certain target groups; or distracting the nonprofit from its central mission. The authors focus first on issues that apply to nonprofits generally: the role of competition, analysis of nonprofit organization behavior, the effects of distribution goals and differential taxation of nonprofit and for-profit activity revenue, the effects of changes in donations on commercial activity, and conversions of nonprofits to for-profits. They then turn to specific industries: hospitals, universities, social service providers, zoos, museums, and public broadcasting. The book concludes with recommendations for research and for public policy toward nonprofits.

Funding Challenges and Successes in Arts Education
Funding Challenges and Successes in Arts Education

Author: Challons-Lipton, Siu

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-06-19

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1522525823

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The arts and humanities are considered to be a core academic subject under federal law. This designation grants these education programs the right to federal funds; however, budget propositions do not allot the arts sufficient financial resources. Funding Challenges and Successes in Arts Education is a timely research publication featuring the most recent scholarly information on fiscal changes that support the financing of the humanities in national and international education. Including extensive coverage on a number of topics and perspectives such as strategic planning, school reform, and teacher training, this book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, teachers, and administrators seeking current research on innovative ways to fund the arts.

Public Goods
Public Goods

Author: Raymond G. Batina

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-01-19

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 3540276386

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A wide-ranging survey of the theory and evidence on public goods, presenting the main literature on public goods, both theoretical and empirical, in a systematic manner. The breadth and depth of the book's coverage extends the existing literature in many ways.

Abundance, Generosity, and the State
Abundance, Generosity, and the State

Author: Jörg Guido Hülsmann

Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute

Published: 2024-03-11

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1610167694

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Human action is usually driven by the desire to obtain more for less, and, ideally something for nothing. This has sometimes been called the economic principle. The wish to “get free stuff” pervades all times and places, all sectors of the economy, all ages, and all social backgrounds. The very selfishness for which the market economy is often chided is, at bottom, a universal quest to obtain goods for free. Jörg Guido Hülsmann sets out to explore the boundaries of this endeavor. He investigates the nature, forms, causes, and consequences of gratuitous goods and concludes that they thrive within a free economy. But generosity and gratuitous abundance tend to be undermined and reversed by central banking and the welfare state. Dr Hülsmann is a professor of economics at the University of Angers in France. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute and a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

The Non-profit Enterprise in Market Economics
The Non-profit Enterprise in Market Economics

Author: E. James

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 1136471103

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Analyses the behaviour of not-for-profit organizations under a variety of conditions and contrasts them with profit maximizing firms, other types of profit-constrained firms and with public bureaucracies.