What Price the Moral High Ground? : How to Succeed without Selling Your Soul /
Financial disasters--and stories of the greedy bankers who precipitated them--seem to underscore the idea that self-interest will always trump concerns for the greater good. Indeed, this idea is supported by the prevailing theories in both economics and evolutionary biology. But is it valid? In What...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Edición: | Core Textbook |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction Infectious Good
- Part I. Doing Well
- 1. Forging Commitments That Sustain Cooperation
- 2. Can Cooperators Find One Another?
- 3. Adaptive Rationality And The Moral Emotions
- 4. Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive In Competitive Environments?
- Part II. Doing Good
- 5. What Price The Moral High Ground?
- 6. Local Status, Fairness, And Wage Compression Revisited
- 7. Motivation, Cognition, And Charitable Giving
- Part III. Forging Better Outcomes
- 8. Social Norms As Positional Arms-Control Agreements
- 9. Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?
- Appendix Ethics Questionnaire
- Epilogue The Importance Of Sanctions
- References
- Index