The Nonprofit Economy

About the author:


A prolific and distinguished scholar, Weisbrod has written or edited 15 books and more than 160 articles and papers on the economics and public policy analysis of poverty, nonprofit organizations, education, health, the causes and consequences of research and technological change in health care, manpower, public interest law, the military draft, and benefit-cost evaluation. His most recent research examines the comparative economic behavior of for-profit, government, and private nonprofit organizations; and the causes and consequences of the growing commercialism of nonprofits. His latest book is To Profit or Not to Profit? The Commercial Transformation of the Nonprofit Sector (Cambridge University Press, 1998).