Preferences for redistribution are sensitive to perceived luck, social homogeneity, war and scarcity

Many human societies feature institutions for redistributing resources from some individuals to others, but preferred levels of redistribution vary greatly within and between populations. We postulate that support for redistribution is the output of a structured cognitive system that is sensitive to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nettle, Daniel, Saxe, Rebecca R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier BV 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130472