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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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Auteur principal: Frank, Robert H. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; 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 QuestionnaireEpilogue: The Importance of Sanctions; References; Index.