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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Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2014
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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.