@inbook{10.7758/9781610446792.17,
 ISBN = {9780871546593},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610446792.17},
 abstract = {This paper is an exploratory effort to examine the role of a voluntary, “philanthropic” sector in an economy with public and private (for-profit) sectors and with collective-consumption and private-consumption goods. More generally, it seeks an answer to the questions what factors determine which goods will be provided governmentally, which privately in for-profit markets, and which in voluntary markets. The approach is primarily positive, attempting particularly to predict the circumstances under which the voluntary sector will develop, grow and decline. A model will be fashioned in which certain behavioral and organizational constraints limit public-sector and for-profit sector activities and stimulate the},
 author = {Burton A. Weisbrod},
 booktitle = {Altruism, Morality, and Economic Theory},
 pages = {171--196},
 publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation},
 title = {Toward a Theory of the Voluntary Non-Profit Sector in a Three-Sector Economy},
 year = {1975}
}