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Integrity and agreement : economics when principles also matter / Lanse Minkler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Minkler, Lanse.
- Series:
- Economics, cognition, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Economics.
- Integrity.
- Self-interest.
- Truthfulness and falsehood.
- Choice (Psychology).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 169 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Why Integrity? 1
- Chapter 2 Preference-Integrity 12
- 2.1 Utility Theory 12
- 2.2 Preference-Integrity 16
- 2.3 An Assessment of Preference-Integrity 18
- Chapter 3 Commitment-Integrity 22
- 3.1 Commitment-Integrity 22
- 3.2 Reasons 30
- 3.3 An Assessment of Commitment-Integrity 34
- 3.4 Failures to Act with Commitment-Integrity 37
- 3.5 Psychological Foundations 41
- Chapter 4 Social Dilemmas and Game Theory 54
- 4.1 The Prisoner's Dilemma 55
- 4.2 Preference-Integrity and Lying in Game Theory 59
- 4.3 Evolutionary Game Theory 68
- 4.4 Integrity in Evolutionary Game Theory 71
- Chapter 5 Lying, Contracts, and Political Behavior 74
- 5.1 Lying and Mutual Deceit 74
- 5.2 Legal Contracts 79
- 5.3 Political Agreements 81
- Chapter 6 The Employment Agreement 87
- 6.1 The Theory of the Firm and the Importance of Shirking 88
- 6.2 Worker Integrity 92
- 6.3 Mutual Deceit in the Employment Agreement 95
- 6.4 Managing Workers of Integrity 99
- 6.5 Integrity and Other Views of the Firm 102
- Chapter 7 Religious Agreements: Beyond the Minimalist Principle 107
- 7.1 The Economic Theory of Religion 108
- 7.2 Religious Integrity 110
- 7.3 Multidimensional Identity and Incoherence 114
- Chapter 8 The Social Contract and Human Rights 117
- 8.1 Human Rights 117
- 8.2 Coherence, Dignity, and Human Rights 121
- Chapter 9 On the Possibility of Integrity 128
- 9.1 Moral Training and Moral Leadership 128
- 9.2 Institutions 134.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-161) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472116430
- 0472116436
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.222273
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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