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Contents:AcknowledgementsIntroduction Richard SteinbergPART I SURVEY OF EARLIER LITERATURE 1. Henry Hansmann (1987), ‘Economic Theories of Nonprofit Organization’2. Richard Steinberg (1987), ‘Nonprofit Organizations and the Market’PART II GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS 3. Avner Ben-Ner and Theresa Van Hoomissen (1991), ‘Nonprofit Organizations in the Mixed Economy: A Demand and Supply Analysis’4. Richard Steinberg (1993), ‘Public Policy and the Performance of Nonprofit Organizations: A General Framework’5. Charles T. Clotfelter (1992), ‘The Distributional Consequences of Nonprofit Activities’6. Susan Rose-Ackerman (1987), ‘Ideals versus Dollars: Donors, Charity Managers, and Government Grants’PART III NONPROFITS AS PROVIDERS OF PUBLIC GOODS 7. Marc Bilodeau and Al Slivinski (1998), ‘Rational Nonprofit Entrepreneurship’8. Marc Bilodeau and Al Slivinski (1997), ‘Rival Charities’9. Anne E. Preston (1988), ‘The Nonprofit Firm: A Potential Solution to Inherent Market Failures’10. Henry Hansmann (1981), ‘Nonprofit Enterprise in the Performing Arts’11. Estelle James (1993), ‘Why Do Different Countries Choose a Different Public-Private Mix of Educational Services?’PART IV NONPROFITS AND ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION 12. Henry Hansmann (1990), ‘The Economic Role of Commercial Nonprofits: The Evolution of the U.S. Savings Bank Industry’13. Ottorino Chillemi and Benedetto Gui (1991), ‘Uninformed Customers and Nonprofit Organization: Modelling “Contract Failure” Theory’14. Richard A. Hirth (1999), ‘Consumer Information and Competition between Nonprofit and For-Profit Nursing Homes’15. Femida Handy and Eliakim Katz (1998), ‘The Wage Differential between Nonprofit Institutions and Corporations: Getting More by Paying Less?’16. Edward L. Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer (2001), ‘Not-for-Profit Entrepreneurs’17. Femida Handy (1997), ‘Coexistence of Nonprofit, For-Profit and Public Sector Institutions’PART V THE BEHAVIOR OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 18. Richard Steinberg (1986), ‘The Revealed Objective Functions of Nonprofit Firms’19. Jyoti Khanna, John Posnett and Todd Sandler (1995), ‘Charity Donations in the UK: New Evidence Based on Panel Data’20. Lewis M. Segal and Burton A. Weisbrod (1998), ‘Interdependence of Commercial and Donative Revenues’PART VI COMPARING NONPROFIT AND FOR-PROFIT BEHAVIOR 21. Burton A. Weisbrod (1998), ‘Institutional Form and Organizational Behavior’22. Mark V. Pauly (1987), ‘Nonprofit Firms in Medical Markets’23. Mark McClellan and Douglas Staiger (2000), ‘Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals’24. Richard Steinberg and Burton A. Weisbrod (1998), ‘Pricing and Rationing by Nonprofit Organizations with Distributional Objectives’25. Laura Leete (2001), ‘Whither the Nonprofit Wage Differential? Estimates from the 1990 Census’PART VII PUBLIC POLICY 26. Jerald Schiff and Burton Weisbrod (1991), ‘Competition between For-Profit and Nonprofit Organizations in Commercial Markets’27. Estelle James (1998), ‘Commercialism among Nonprofits: Objectives, Opportunities, and Constraints’28. James M. Ferris and Elizabeth Graddy (1994), ‘Organizational Choices for Public Service Supply’Name Index