Morality Beyond Social Preferences: Smithian Sympathy, Social Neuroscience and the Nature of Social Consciousness
The theory of social preferences expanded the definition of the utility function in order to reproduce the pro-social behavior observed in experiments. Does this then mean that this is the route towards a positive theory of morality in economics? We do not think so. Our claim is that there is an epi...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Œconomia
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Œconomia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/2373 |