Policies designed for self-interested citizens may undermine "The moral sentiments": Evidence from economic experiments

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5883, 2008, Pages 1605-1609

  Bowles, Samuel ^a,b  

^a SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; CITIZENSHIP; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC POLICY; INCENTIVE; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENT; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; ECONOMICS; GAME; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HARNESS;

ECONOMICS; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MORALS; MOTIVATION; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 46249113019     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1152110     Document Type: Review

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