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Institutions and morals: A reply

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  • Falk, Armin
  • Szech, Nora

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Breyer and Weimann (2015) suggest interpreting the results of our study on Morals and Markets (2013a,b) in “the opposite way”. In the following, we briefly discuss why this claim is unwarranted. We hope that these clarifications will help inspiring future work on causal effects of markets and other institutions on moral values.

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  • Falk, Armin & Szech, Nora, 2015. "Institutions and morals: A reply," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 40(PB), pages 391-394.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:poleco:v:40:y:2015:i:pb:p:391-394
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2015.07.003
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    Keywords

    Institutions and morals; Markets and morals; Causality; Experiments;
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    JEL classification:

    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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