Moral Markets : : The Critical Role of Values in the Economy /

Moral Markets : : The Critical Role of Values in the Economy / / ed. by Paul J. Zak.

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Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? Drawing on converging evidence from neuroscience, social science, biology, law, and philosophy, Moral Markets makes the case that modern market exchange works only because most people, m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bergstrom, Carl,
Boyd, Robert,
Brosnan, Sarah F.,
Casebeer, William D.,
Frank, Robert H.,
Gintis, Herbert,
Goodenough, Oliver R.,
Goodenough, Oliver,
Gruter Cheney, Monika,
Handy, Charles,
Jensen, Michael C.,
Kerr, Ben,
Khurana, Rakesh,
Kimbrough, Erik O.,
Lachmann, Michael,
O'Hara, Erin Ann,
Ostrom, Elinor,
Richerson, Peter J.,
Schwab, David,
Smith, Vernon L.,
Solomon, Robert C.,
Stout, Lynn A.,
Waal, Frans B. M. de,
Wilson, Bart J.,
Zak, Paul J.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Jensen, Michael C.
HerausgeberIn:
Zak, Paul J.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2008
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.) :; 12 halftones. 12 line illus. 7 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Preface: Is Free Enterprise Values in Action?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Part I: Philosophical Foundations of Values
  • One. The Stories Markets Tell
  • Two. Free Enterprise, Sympathy, and Virtue
  • Three. The Status of Moral Emotions in Consequentialist Moral Reasoning
  • Part II. Nonhuman Origins of Values
  • Four. How Selfish an Animal?
  • Five. Fairness and Other-Regarding Preferences in Nonhuman Primates
  • Part III. The Evolution of Values and Society
  • Six. The Evolution of Free Enterprise Values
  • Seven. Building Trust by Wasting Time
  • Part IV. Values and the Law
  • Eight. Taking Conscience Seriously
  • Nine. Trustworthiness and Contract
  • Ten. The Vital Role of Norms and Rules in Maintaining Open Public and Private Economies
  • Eleven. Values, Mechanism Design, and Fairness
  • Part V. Values and the Economy
  • Twelve. Values and Value
  • Thirteen. Building a Market
  • Fourteen. Corporate Honesty and Business Education
  • Fifteen. What's a Business For?
  • Index

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