Nadelhoffer, Thomas; Heshmati, Saeideh; Kaplan, Deanna; … - In: Economics and Philosophy 29 (2013) 02, pp. 235-261
Retributivist accounts of punishment maintain that it is right to punish wrongdoers, even if the punishment has no future benefits. Research in experimental economics indicates that people are willing to pay to punish defectors. A complementary line of work in social psychology suggests that...