What Ethics Can Learn From Experimental Economics - If Anything
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- Güth, Werner & Kliemt, Hartmut, 2010. "What ethics can learn from experimental economics -- If anything," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 26(3), pages 302-310, September.
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Keywords
Meta-Ethics; Experimental Economics; Reflective Equilibrium;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D64 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Altruism; Philanthropy; Intergenerational Transfers
- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
- K00 - Law and Economics - - General - - - General (including Data Sources and Description)
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2008-08-14 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-EVO-2008-08-14 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2008-08-14 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HPE-2008-08-14 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2008-08-14 (Law and Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2008-08-14 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
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