Moral economics is the application of economics principles to altruistic endeavors.

Moral economics includes incentive mechanisms and coordination mechanisms.

Incentive mechanisms include certificates of impact and impact prizes.

Coordination mechanisms include moral trades and donation swaps.

Certificate of impact

Certificates of impact were proposed by Paul Christiano in 2014. Benjamin Ross Hoffman proposed a minimum viable product for this idea. This website on impact purchases explores this idea in more depth and purchased some certificate in 2015.

Also see: Plan for Impact Certificate MVP and Demand offsetting

Related: Retroactive Public Goods Funding

Altruistic equity allocation

• Altruistic equity allocation

Measuring impact

• Making a difference
• Shapley values: Better than counterfactuals

Other ideas

• Planetary Condominium: a legal framework for Earth System Stewardship
• Making Trillions for Effective Charities through the Consumer Economy

Organizations

• Alice
• impactcerts

Discussion group

• The Economics of Doing Good (Effective Altruists)

External links

• Introducing Moral Economics
• Inducement prize contest
• Pay More For Results

See also

• Donating now vs later
• Five Mistakes in Moral Mathematics