TY - JOUR
AU - Weisbrod, Burton A.
AB -  John Evans Professor of Economics and Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Professor Weisbrod thanks the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for support of the research reported in this issue. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 17, No. 2, 165–174 (1998) 1998 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. CCC 0276-8739/98/020165-10 166 / Guest Editor’s Introduction ploying a greater share of the labor market, paid and unpaid—attention to nonprofits is bound to become heightened. And it has. What is happening to nonprofit organizations? Are they becoming indistinguishable from private firms? Do they justify the subsidies and tax exemptions they receive from federal, state, and local governments? This collection illustrates the enormous complexity of attempting to answer these questions, and the equally great importance of doing so.2 The nearly three quarters of a million charitable and social welfare nonprofits in the United States—those that are exempt from federal taxation under sections 501(c)(3) and (4) of the Internal Revenue Code—do not operate outside the overall economy. Their entwining with private enterprise, as well as with government, is, as we will show, taking a dizzying, ever-growing variety of 
TI - Guest editor's introduction: The nonprofit mission and its financing
JF - Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
DO - 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6688(199821)17:2<165::AID-PAM3>3.0.CO;2-F
DA - 1998-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/guest-editor-s-introduction-the-nonprofit-mission-and-its-financing-BCKNDurQK8
SP - 165
EP - 174
VL - 17
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -