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Books go public : the consequences of the expropriation of monastic libraries on innovation
Buonanno, Paolo; Cinnirella, Francesco; Harka, Elona; … - 2024
accumulated and stored in monasteries was useful for innovation. In 1866, anticlerical legislation in Italy led to the suppression … a significant increase in innovation. The effect is driven by the increase in the number of manuscripts in previously … existing libraries. We show that the innovation advantage also persisted in the long run and had no impact on human capital. …
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What crisis? : taking stock of management researchers' experiences with and views of scholarly misconduct
Hoover, Gary A.; Hopp, Christian - 2017
This research presents the results of a survey regarding scientific misconduct elicited from a sample of 1,215 management researchers. We find that misconduct (research that was either fabricated or falsified) is not encountered often by reviewers nor editors. Yet, there is a strong prevalence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717154
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Human ethics and virtues : rethinking the homo-economicus model
Dhami, Sanjit S. - 2017
outlines the evidence for a more inclusive picture of humans in which ethics and morality play a central role. It argues for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782050
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The ethical content of the economic analysis of disasters : price gouging and post-disaster recovery
Noy, Ilan; Noy, Shakked - 2016
ethics that are behind the economic analysis of disasters. Given this absence, we believe that a better understanding of the … ways in which the discipline approaches the topic of disasters and its ethics is gained not by examining the multitude of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573935
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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 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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Can moral reminders curb corruption? : evidence from an online classroom experiment
Claus, Corinna; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Krieger, Tim - 2022
Using an incentivized online classroom experiment, we assess the effectiveness of deontological vs. consequentialist moral reminders. Participants were told that they are the responsible public servant for acquiring a Covid-19 vaccine, providing them with the opportunity to generate some extra...
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Infinite population utilitarian criteria
Asheim, Geir B.; Kamaga, Kohei; Zuber, Stéphane - 2022
, separability, and population ethics. We relate it to other strongly anonymous utilitarian criteria and demonstrate its …
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How does group-decision making affect subsequent individual behavior?
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Feldhaus, Christoph - 2022
Do groups and individuals behave differently in dictator games with varying deservingness of the recipient? Does the involvement in group-decision making affect the decisions of group members in subsequent individual decisions? We address these questions using a controlled dictator-game...
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Why people oppose trade institutions : on morality, fairness and risky actions
Hauge, Karen E.; Kverndokk, Snorre; Lange, Andreas - 2021 - This version: November 2021
We investigate how moral considerations, background conditions and risk can trigger resistance to implement trading institutions. We provide survey results on moral opposition to trade on several goods and services like body organs, sex services, surrogate mothers, trade with developing nations,...
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Fighting climate change : the role of norms, preferences, and moral values
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Anand … - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
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