The seemingly never ending scandals in the world of finance with their damaging effects on value and human welfare …

moral sentiments. Setting law thus means both imposing material incentives and sending a message about society's values, and …The next main question is the expressive role of law. The choices of legislators and other principals naturally reflect … individually signaling agents, makes precise the notion of expressive law, determining in particular when a weakening or a …

understanding the trade-offs that individuals face when forming their opinions about how a society should organize certain …

conclusion has implications for the study of institutions, economics, and religion throughout history and in the developing world …When the mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alone may not sustain cooperation, and religion may play an …

which the United States eliminated corruption. This paper examines the concept of corruption in American history; tracing … the term corruption to its roots in British political philosophy of the 17th and 18th century, and from there back to … Machiavelli, Polybius and Artistole. Corruption was defined prior to 1850 in a way that was significantly different from how it …

Several authors suggest that trust is an important determinant of cooperation between strangers in a society, and …