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Social preference, institution, and distribution : an experimental and philosophical approach / Natsuka Tokumaru.
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Tokumaru, Natsuka
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Language
English
Published/Created
Singapore : Springer, [2016]
©2016
Description
xii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HB74.P8 T65 2016
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Economics
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Psychological aspects
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Economics
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Sociological aspects
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Human behavior
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Economic aspects
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Economic history
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Social policy
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Series
Evolutionary economics and social complexity science ; vol. 3.
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Evolutionary economics and social complexity science, 2198-4204 ; volume 3
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Summary note
"This is the first book to examine behavioral theories on social preference from institutional and philosophical perspectives using economic experiments. The experimental method in economics has challenged central behavioral assumptions based on rationality and selfishness, proposing empirical evidence that not only profit seeking but also social preferences matter in individuals' decision making. By performing distribution experiments in institutional contexts, the author extends assumptions about human behavior to understand actual social economy. The book also aims to enrich behavioral theories of economics directed toward institutional evolution.The author scrutinizes how specific institutional conditions enhance or mute individuals' selfish incentives or their fairness ideals such as egalitarian, performance-based, labor-value radicalism or libertarianism. From experimental results and their analysis, implications for actual problems in social economy and institutional change are derived: why performance-based pay often fails to promote workers' productivity; why labor wages decline whereas shareholder's values increase after financialization; and whether socially responsible investment can be a social institution for corporate governance.The book is also addressed to philosophers of social sciences interested in how experimental methods can contribute to developing cognition of human behaviors and be extended to social theories. Referring to behavioral theorists in the history of economic thought, the author discusses the meanings of experiments in the methodology of social sciences. She also proposes new ways of interpreting experimental results by reviving historic social theories and applying them to actual social problems."--Publisher's Web site.
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Contents
Introduction: Applying the experimental method to economic thought: from Adam Smith to Vernon Smith
Fairness ideals, hidden selfishness, and opportunistic behavior: an experimental approach
What is "fair" distribution under collaboration?: Evidence from lab experiments
Income sharing between workers and investors: economic experiments on functional income distribution
Socially responsible investment: distributive experiment among investors, companies, and society
From Gedankenexperiment to social economies: Wieser's empiricism and the social sciences
Conclusion: From behavioral theories to institutional evolution.
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ISBN
9789811001369
9811001367
LCCN
2015959925
OCLC
925497840
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