Charity Case: A Class Competition that Combats Economics Students' Proclivity Toward Self-Interested Behavior

Stephanie Owings-Edwards
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Stephanie Owings-Edwards: Fort Lewis College

Journal of Economics Teaching, 2021, vol. 6, issue 1, 40-52

Abstract: This paper describes a class competition that introduces students to the concept of effective altruism and metrics used to evaluate the effectiveness of charities. A well-established […]

Keywords: Altruism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A21 A22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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