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The 1995 Voluntas Symposium was supported by the Center on Philanthropy, University of Indiana; the Institution for Social Policy Studies and the Program on Nonprofit Organizations at Yale University; the Center for Social Research and Instruction at Rutgers University; and the International Society for Third-Sector Research at Johns Hopkins University. The support of these institutions is gratefully acknowledged.
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Anheier, H.K., Ben-Ner, A. Economic theories of non-profit organisations: a Voluntas Symposium. Voluntas 8, 93–96 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354188
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