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Human Ethics and Virtues : Rethinking the Homo-Economicus Model

Dhami, Sanjit - 2018

outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …

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A Little Good Is Good Enough : Ethical Consumption, Cheap Excuses, and Moral Self-Licensing

Engel, Jannis - 2017

We explore the role of cheap excuses in product choice. If a product improves upon one ethically relevant dimension, agents may care less about other, completely independent ethical facets of the product. This ‘static moral self-licensing' would extend the logic of the well studied moral...

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Pleasures of Skill and Moral Conduct

Falk, Armin - 2016

This paper provides controlled experimental evidence that striving for pleasures of skill can have negative moral consequences and causally reduce moral values. Subjects perform an IQ-test. They know that each correctly solved question increases the likelihood of moral transgression. In terms of...

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Do Leaders Affect Ethical Conduct?

D'Adda, Giovanna - 2014

We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...

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Ancestry, Language and Culture

Spolaore, Enrico - 2015

based on differences in average answers to questions from the World Values Survey. Using a simple theoretical model we …

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Economic Freedom and Religion : An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L. - 2016

, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic …

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Religious Tolerance as Engine of Innovation

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2018

We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...

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Policies Against Human Trafficking : The Role of Religion and Political Institutions

Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using … influence of religion on the overall 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index is driven by protection and prevention policies. As … empirical findings regarding the association between religion, political institutions, and human development …

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Suicide Attacks and Religious Cleavages

Filote, Andra - 2015

Many experts claim that the incidence of suicide attacks is driven by religious cleavages. To test this hypothesis, we investigate whether the total number of suicide attacks per violent conflict or the annual number of suicide attacks per country is associated with simmering religious...

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A Journey from a Corruption Port to a Tax Haven

Hebous, Shafik - 2011

corruption and the concealment of officials' bribes, tax havens discourage the provision of public goods and hence have also a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119115

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