Experimental research on generosity has focused predominantly behavior in the monetary domain, although many real-life decisions occur non-monetary domain. Investigating preferences domain is important for understanding a large class of situations ranging from effort provision at work to reducing individual CO2 emissions. This paper shows differs between and domains that different social norms ...

In the Medicare Advantage (MA) market, private health insurers compete to offer plans with the most attractive premium and benefit package. Medicare provides a subsidy, based on a \benchmark payment rate", for each Medicare beneficiary a plan enrolls. We investigate how this subsidy, the primary policy lever in the market, affects the equilibrium premiums and benefits of MA plans. We exploit va...

This paper analyzes Richard Powers’s Generosity: An Enhancement (2009), a self-reflexive novel in which Powers explores some of the possibilities and challenges increasing human happiness levels through biotechnology. As this work sets out to show, greatest success may be his choice adopt certain conventions typical metafiction provide fervent critique pressing issue. Drawing mainly from Waugh’...

During Sangam period there were land lords who holds the rank next to Vendars. These pay tax Vendars and they themselves participated in politics served as army chiefs times of war. Minor parts lands owned by Chera, Chola Pandyas ruled these opposed them kept areas under their control. Land like Kosar came fromm northern part Tamilnadu. This kind sociological approach has greatly contributed so...

This manuscript has many predecessors. It is based on lectures and courses that repeatedly have been held since 1975 in Germany, Italy and France. Parts of this script were adopted from course scripts and other material by Hartmut B ¨ arnighausen (University of Karlsruhe). I am grateful to him for his generosity and for numerous discussions and suggestions.