Economics Education and Greed

By Long Wang, Deepak Malhotra, J. Murnighan. 2011

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The recent financial crisis, and repeated corporate scandals, raise serious questions about whether a business school education contributes to what some have described as a culture of greed. The do...

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems and Management, Social Psychology

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Presidential Address: Does Finance Benefit Society? (2015, background): “This result is consistent with Wang, Malhotra, and Murnighan (2011), who show in an experiment that the teaching of economics makes students more selfish and less concerned about the common good.”
Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior (2012, background): “Furthermore, economics education, with its focus on self-interest maximization, may lead people to view greed as positive and beneficial (26, 27).”
Towards a taxonomy of research misconduct: The case of business school research (2019, background): “As various studies have suggested, this tendency may be particularly pronounced among economics and business school students (e.g. Frank et al., 1996; Klein et al., 2006; McCabe et al., 2006; Giacolone and Thompson, 2006; Giacolone and Wargo, 2009; Brown, 2011; Wang et al., 2011).”
Institutional Frame Switching: How Institutional Logics Shape Individual Action (2016, unknown): “, 2005), particularly through psychological mechanisms (Wang & Murnighan, 2011; Wang et al., 2011).”