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John E. Petrovic – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
This article defines a public good, arguing that higher education should be considered a public good. This requires moving away from an orthodox economistic understanding of public goods. It also requires understanding the relationship between higher education as both a private good and a public good to the extent that it promotes individual…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Prosocial Behavior, Altruism, Sharing Behavior
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Tifferet, Sigal; Rosenblit, Niv; Shalev, Maya – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2017
Purpose: People engage in green consumption for many reasons, both conscious and unconscious. This paper aims to draw on evolutionary psychology to propose that hard-wired mating strategies encourage both men and women to increase their green consumption in the presence of members of the opposite sex. Design/methodology/approach: Observations were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Sustainability, Sales Occupations