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What Price the Moral High Ground? Ethical Dilemmas in Competitive Environments

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frank, Robert H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press 2014
Subjects:
Business Ethics > Congresses
Cooperativeness > Moral And Ethical Aspects
Social Responsibility Of Business
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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 Questionnaire
  • Epilogue: The Importance of Sanctions
  • References
  • Index.

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