The Limits to Moral Erosion in Markets: Social Norms and the Replacement Excuse
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- Björn Bartling & Yagiz Özdemir, 2017. "The limits to moral erosion in markets: social norms and the replacement excuse," ECON - Working Papers 263, Department of Economics - University of Zurich.
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Keywords
replacement excuse; social norms; moral behavior; competition; markets; utilitarianism; deontological ethics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BAN-2017-11-05 (Banking)
- NEP-EVO-2017-11-05 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-HME-2017-11-05 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-SOC-2017-11-05 (Social Norms & Social Capital)
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