Morals and markets : the dangerous balance

Author(s)

• Friedman, Daniel
• McNeill, Daniel

Bibliographic Information

Morals and markets : the dangerous balance

Daniel Friedman and Daniel McNeill

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

2nd ed

• : [pbk.]

Note

Bibliography: p. [253]-274

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Friedman and McNeill draw on recent research in evolutionary game theory and behavioral economics to explore the relationship between our moral codes and our market systems. They show how imbalance between morals and markets is at the root of the recent corporate scandals in the US as well as the global financial crisis the world continues to face.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Prologue: A Tale of Two Tilts I. TWO HALVES OF THE BALANCE 1. The Savanna Code: What Good Are Morals? 2. The Rise of Wealth: How We Became Civilized and Started Shopping II. WORLDS OUT OF KILTER 3. From Melqart to Zombieworld: Adventures in Imbalance 4. Madness, Lies, and Crashes: When Prices Run Free 5. Blundering Back To Balance: TARP and Tear Gas 6. China: Morals and the Rush to Wealth III. LIFE AROUND US 7. From Hudson's Bay to eBay: Why Some People Like Going to Work 8. Markets and Sin: Murder, Mega-Casinos, and Drug Wars 9. Underworlds: The Tao of Gangs 10. Cooling the Earth: The Preservation Markets 11. The World Ahead

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Details

• NCID: BB13813658
• ISBN:
  • 9781137282583
• LCCN: 2012046886
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: 287 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HB72
  • DC23 : 174/.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Economics -- Moral and ethical aspects
  • LCSH : Economics -- Sociological aspects
  • LCSH : Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects
  • LCSH : Economic history