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A structural topic model of the features and the cultural origins of the Baconian program

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2017

We use machine-learning methods to study the features and origins of the Baconian program, a cultural and methodological paradigm viewed as providing the intellectual roots for modern economic growth. After building a machine-readable corpus of Bacon's works, we estimate a structural topic...

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Efficiency-morality trade-offs in repugnant transactions : a choice experiment

Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2016

Societies prohibit many transactions considered morally repugnant, although potentially efficiency-enhancing. We conducted an online choice experiment to characterize preferences for the morality and efficiency of payments to kidney donors. Preferences were heterogeneous, ranging from...

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Corruption in Russia : historic legacy and systemic nature

Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita - 2018

This paper argues that corruption in Russia is systemic in nature. Low wage levels of public officials provide strong … incentives to engage in corruption. As corruption is illegal, corrupt officials can be exposed any time, which enforces loyalty … towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …

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Pleasures of skill and moral conduct

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 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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Institutions, shared guilt, and moral transgression

Rothenhäusler, Dominik; Schweizer, Nikolaus; Szech, Nora - 2015

Many tasks can only be completed if several people contribute. Likewise, many institutions, e.g. voting rules, require the support of several people to implement specific decisions. In such situations, individual costs from supporting may decrease in the number of supporters. This holds true for...

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Organizations, diffused pivotality and immoral outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Social preferences in the lab : a comparison of students and a representative population

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Nygaard, Knut; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2011

Can lab experiments on student populations serve to identify the motivational forces present in society at large? We …

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Moral federalism : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Janeba, Eckhard - 2004

preferences not only over their own choice but also about other individuals' actions. How should society decide these issues? This … paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their …

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Anonymous money, moral sentiments and welfare

Kanniainen, Vesa; Pääkkönen, Jenni - 2004

Some markets are prone to develop shadow transactions for the purpose of tax avoidance. Moral sentiments control the allocation of consumers between the legal and illicit markets. Such sentiments include self-esteem and social disapproval. The market solution leads to fiscal externality...

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Of morals, markets and mice : a comment on Falk and Szech

Breyer, Friedrich; Weimann, Joachim - 2014

A recent experimental study by Falk and Szech (Science, 2013) concludes that "markets erode moral values". If this were true, economists, who have emphasized the efficiency enhancing effects of markets for centuries, would have to reconsider their judgments fundamentally. This would be no less...

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