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, participants completed 3 tasks of interest that contribute to an understanding or one's ethics: a task assessing prosociality, a …
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We examine the effect of adherence to behavioral codes, as measured by the degree of religiosity, on the level of honesty by conducting under-the-cup die experiments. The findings suggest that behavioral codes, which prohibit lying, offset the monetary incentive to lie. The highest level of...
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We present a framework that incorporates both moral motivations and fairness considerations into utility. The main idea is that individuals face a preference trade-off between their material individual interest and their desire to follow moral norms. In our model, we assume that moral motivation...
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From the perspective of economic ethics, this article sheds light on how globalization actually is perceived in public …, especially where it follows the principle of a Social Market Economy to organize solidarity as market-based inclusion. Here lie … unemployment traps. Here, too, it holds true that market inclusion is practical solidarity. (4) In order to make a better use of …
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institutionalized solidarity. But exactly this is of utmost importance: An effective fight against global hunger requires … institutionalized solidarity among strangers, and this can only be organized by taking care to improve - instead to imperish - the …
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This paper studies how individual characteristics, institutions, and their interaction influence moral decisions. We validate a moral paradigm focusing on the willingness to accept harming third parties. Consequences of moral decisions are real. We explore how moral behavior varies with...
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Markets are ubiquitous in our daily life and, despite many imperfections, they are a great source of human welfare. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact, competitive pressure on markets may create strong...
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In an experiment with 739 subjects we study whether and how different interventions might have an influence on the degree of moral behavior when subjects make decisions that can generate negative externalities on uninvolved parties. Particularly, subjects can either take money for themselves or...
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This article analyzes William Baumol's contributions to economics ethics and to business ethics. Furthermore, it …
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