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On seeing and being seen

Social choice and welfare, 2017-12, Vol.49 (3/4), p.721-849 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
On seeing and being seen
Author: Elster, Jon
Subjects: American Revolution ; Case studies ; Consumption ; Cooperation ; Economic models ; Economic theory ; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods ; Economics ; Economics and Finance ; Experiments ; Game Theory ; International Political Economy ; Magical thinking ; Morality ; National elections ; Optimization ; Original Paper ; Public Finance ; Recycling ; Social and Behav. Sciences ; Social norms ; Social Policy ; Voting
Is Part Of: Social choice and welfare, 2017-12, Vol.49 (3/4), p.721-849
Description: The paper addresses John Roemer's recent work on Kantian optimization and Kantian equilibria. Roemer argues that the standard economic theory of Nash equilibria is incapable of accounting for cooperative behavior such as recycling, reporting one's income honestly, and voting in national elections. Instead we should assume that a cooperator is motivated to do what would most benefit her if all did the same. In commenting on this proposal, the first section of the paper summarizes Kant's original formulation of the categorical imperative and relates it to psychological and historical studies of magical thinking. The next section distinguishes between unconditional and conditional norms of behavior and, within the latter, between the social norms of cooperation that can be triggered when what the agent does is being observed by others and the quasi-moral norms of cooperation that can be triggered when an agent observes what others do. To illustrate these ideas, the paper cites many experiments and historical case studies, the most important being the non-consumption, non-importation, and non-exportation movements in the American revolution. The concluding section summarizes Roemer's own empirical work, and discusses critically his argument that his findings can be explained by assuming that agents are conditional Kantians.
Publisher: Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0176-1714
EISSN: 1432-217X
DOI: 10.1007/s00355-017-1029-9
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
ProQuest Central

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On seeing and being seen

Springer-Verlag GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2017 ;Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2017 ;Social Choice and Welfare is a copyright of Springer, (2017). All Rights Reserved. ;ISSN: 0176-1714 ;EISSN: 1432-217X ;DOI: 10.1007/s00355-017-1029-9

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