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Who is Neoliberal? Durkheimian Individualism and Support for Market Mechanisms / Augustin Landier, David Thesmar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Landier, Augustin.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29942.
- NBER working paper series no. w29942
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.
- Summary:
- This paper investigates the drivers of support for market mechanisms (competition and optimizing behavior by agents). We elicit such attitudes using concrete and simplified situations where respondents face a tradeoff between an economically efficient situation and a pro-social objective. We find that support for deviation from efficient solutions achieved through market mechanism is strongly correlated with moral values as defined by Haidt (2013): care, fairness, loyalty and authority. While the traditional left-right divide spans some of this variation, an even bigger role is played by what we label "individualism", the average support for all 4 values, a moral stance orthogonal to the left-right divide. We ground this measure of individualism in the sociology of Emile Durkheim.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2022.
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