What Price the Moral High Ground?

By R. Frank. 2003

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Introduction: Infectious Good vii Part I. DOING WELL 1. Forging Commitments That Sustain Cooperation 3 2. Can Cooperators Find One Another? 28 3. Adaptive Rationality and the Moral Emotions 45 4. Can Socially Responsible Firms Survive in Competitive Environments? 58 Part II. DOING GOOD 5. What Price the Moral High Ground? 71 6. Local Status, Fairness, and Wage Compression Revisited 92 7. Motivation, Cognition, and Charitable Giving 109 Part III. FORGING BETTER OUTCOMES 8. Social Norms as Positional Arms-Control Agreements 133 9. Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation? 155 Appendix: Ethics Questionnaire 179 Epilogue: The Importance of Sanctions 183 References 191 Index 199

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Perceptions of moral character modulate the neural systems of reward during the trust game (2005, unknown): “Inferior occipital gyrus (18) 26 L –36 –79 –2”
Signaling and Screening of Workers' Motivation (2007, background): “(19) where eh is the level of e¤ort a worker of type h is induced to exert by this prot maximising scheme, and P ( h) and P ( ) are the probabilities that a worker of type h and a worker of type are hired, given by (15) when motivation is observable and by (A10) when motivation is unobservable, r”
Behavioral Ethics in Organizations: A Review (2006, background): “Some researchers relying on the theory of planned behavior (Ajzen, 1985), however, have examined the link between ethical beliefs, intentions, and behaviors and found significant differences between beliefs or intentions and actual behaviors (e.g., Weber & Gillespie, 1998).”
Moral Reputation: An Evolutionary and Cognitive Perspective (2012, background): “(Trivers, 1971, p. 51) A comparable account of the moral emotions has been developed by Robert H. Frank (Frank, 1988, 2004; see also Hirshleifer, 1987).”
The Collaborative Enterprise (2009, background): “represents a real breakthrough in business ethics literature because it treats ethics as an endogenous factor in economic life (Frank, 2004).”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, background): “29 Alternatively, charitable giving may be seen as a good that endows status on the benefactor, as in Frank (2004).”
Ethics and Personality: Empathy and Narcissism as Moderators of Ethical Decision Making in Business Students (2010, background): “Second, based upon Frank’s (2004) findings that a traditional economics curriculum was a significant predictor of the chances that a student would tend to act in an ethical manner, we formed the following two hypotheses:”
The multiplicity of emotions: A framework of emotional functions in decision making (2008, background): “Why, then, do most people act morally most of the time? Frank (1988, 2004) argues that some emotional states mainly operate as commitment devices, leveraging moral choices and preventing people from pursuing hardnosed self-interest.”