Generosity and Scholarship

Methodological Individualism and Generosity

Today a convergence between the fields of anthropology and economics has re-emerged after decades during which the dictates of methodological individualism, as strikingly elucidated by Kenneth Arrow, had seriously limited and hampered effective scholarship in studies of economic and social development in developing countries. A new generation of development economists represented by Spolaori an...

Genericity, Generosity, and Tori

Bruno Poizat is associated, among other things, with broadening the scope of the theory of groups of finite Morley rank to the level of stable groups [P87], in keeping with the general trend of the development of model theory from Morley to Shelah. But this has not prevented him from taking an active interest in such aspects of the theory as are associated more particularly with the case of fin...

Serendipity, Generosity, and Inspiration

Generosity, anonymity, gender

We examine experimentally how a person’s generosity depends on the degree of anonymity between giver and recipient, as well as on the parties’ sexes. Less is given when the giver is paid on stage rather than in private; men receive less than women; fewer men than women give non-zero amounts. The results suggest that it may be problematic to organize experimental data in terms of social distance...

The Concept of Scholarship: Educational Scholarship and Its Application in Iran

One of the notions entered in university fields in the last two decades is the concept of scholarship and especially educational scholarship. Due to the inclusion of this concept in the first article of faculty members' academic promotion bylaw and considering it as a mandatory component for academic promotion, great attention has been paid to this topic. Remarking the background and principles...