Toward An Eco-Egalitarian University

Kidney exchange: An egalitarian mechanism

Transplantation is the preferred treatment for the most serious forms of kidney disease; deceaseddonor and live-donor kidneys are the two sources for transplantation, and these sources are utilized via two different programs. One of these programs, a two-way kidney paired donation (KPD), involves two patient-donor couples, for each of whom transplantation from donor to intended recipient is not...

Leadership in an egalitarian society.

Leadership is instrumental to resolution of collective action dilemmas, particularly in large, heterogeneous groups. Less is known about the characteristics or effectiveness of leadership in small-scale, homogeneous, and relatively egalitarian societies, in which humans have spent most of our existence. Among Tsimane' forager-horticulturalists of Bolivia, we (1) assess traits of elected leaders...

An Egalitarian Green Growth Programme for India

This is a shortened version of a paper written for the forthcoming Festschrift in honour of Utsa Patnaik, to be edited by C P Chandrasekhar and Arindam Banerjee, and published by Tulika Books. A working paper version of the full study is also available online at: http://www.peri.umass.edu/fi leadmin/pdf/working_papers/working_ papers_351-400/WP389.pdf We are grateful to the editors of the forth...

Toward an Ideal Relational Ethic: Re-thinking university-community engagement

Toward a Service (Eco)Systems Perspective on Value Creation

This article discusses how the core concepts of service-dominant logic—service-for-service exchange, value co-creation, value propositions, resource integration, and highly collaborative relationships—point to a generic actor conceptualization in which all actors engaged in exchange (e.g., firms, customers, etc.) are viewed as service providing, value-creating enterprises. In other words, all s...