Ethical issues in economics: from altruism to cooperation to equity
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List of Tables viii
List of Figures ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
1. Altruism, Rationality and Morality 9
Introduction 9
1.1 Morality as Altruism cum Rationality* 10
1.2 Altruism and Rationality 12
1.3 Morality and Rationality 14
1.4 Moral Behaviour and the Invisible Hand , and
Individual Freedom 15
1.5 Summary 18
2. Economic, Socio Economic and Moral Economic
Approaches to Altruism 20
Introduction 20
2.1 Standard Economic Approaches to Altruism 21
2.2 Alternative Socio economic and Moral economic
Approaches to Altruism 25
2.3 Summary 29
3. (Non Altruistic) Treatment of Altruism in Some Recent
Economic Works 31
Introduction 31
3.1 Recent Articles Selected 32
3.2 The Articles Modelling of Altruism 33
3.2.1 Altruism as a Preference in the Utility Function 33
3.2.2 Altruism as Cooperative Behaviour 35
3.3 Allocative Inefficiencies, Exploitability and
Moral Hazard of Altruism 36
3.4 Altruism as a quid pro quo 41
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3.5 Altruism as a Genetically or Culturally Inherited Trait 43
Appendix 3.1 A Prisoner s Dilemma with Altruism and/or
Trust or Assurance 47
Supplement: On Altruism, Fitness, Intelligence and Poverty 50
Introduction 50
53.1 The Economist s and Sociobiologist s Altruism and
Fitness 50
53.2 From Altruism to Pauper Homo Economicus 52
53.3 Conclusion 57
Appendix S3.1 A Sketch of the Model 57
4. Ethical and Political Non Neutrality of Neoclassical
Economics 59
Introduction 59
4.1 Some Thoughts on the Prisoners Dilemma and
Free Rider Problem 62
4.2 On the Ethical Non Neutrality of the Selfishness
Assumption 63
4.3 Some Implications 64
5. Ethics, Politics and Economics 71
Introduction 71
5.1 Economic Research 73
5.2 Economic Teaching 75
5.3 Economic vs Weather Forecasting 78
5.4 Some Semantic (or not so) Issues in Economics 79
Supplement: Is the Dismal Science a Corrupting
One as Well? 82
Introduction 82
55.1 Possible Explanations for Economists Observed
Bad Behaviour 83
55.2 Reasons for Concern 87
6. Ethics, Game Theory and Laboratory Experiments 89
Introduction 89
6.1 From Game Playing to Game Theory 89
Contents vii
6.1.1 From Playing Games to Working ... 90
6.1.2 ... to Game Theory 90
6.2 Concern for Others in Games versus Real life 92
6.3 Laboratory Experiments and Mixed Results 95
6.4 Teleological versus Deontological Ethics 97
7. Competitive vs Cooperative Individuals and Moral
Principles of Cooperation 100
Introduction 100
7.1 Game Theory, Rationality and Cooperation 101
7.2 Competitive Individuals: Prisoner s Dilemma and
Other Social Dilemmas 105
7.3 Cooperative Individuals: Natural or Command
Cooperators 108
7.4 Summary 117
Appendix 7.1 Description of Social Dilemmas 118
Appendix 7.2 Asymmetric Games among
Competitive Players 119
8. Efficiency and Equity: A Short Run, Short Sighted
Trade Off 120
Introduction 120
8.1 Efficiency, Equity and the Paradox of Greed
(or Inequality) 124
8.2 Digression on Charities 126
8.3 Formal Relationship between Efficiency and
Income Distribution 126
8.4 Causality between Efficiency and Distribution 128
8.5 Economy s Trajectory 129
8.6 Income Distribution in the Four Regions:
a Simple Model 132
8.7 Conclusions 136
Concluding Notes 139
Notes 144
References 173
Index 185
List of Tables
3.A1 The Prisoner s Dilemma 47
3.A2 An Asymmetric Assurance Game 48
3.A3 Illustrative Examples of an Altruist s Prisoner s
Dilemma 49
7.1 Competitive Individuals: (Two player, Two strategy)
Social Dilemmas 107
7.2 Cooperative Individuals: The Resolution of Dilemmas:
Cooperation is the Best Individual and Collective
Outcome 114
8.1 Rich Poor Game over (e, d): Scenario (a) 135
8.2 Rich Poor Game over (e, d): Scenario (b) 135
8.3 Rich Poor Three strategy Game over (e, d):
Scenario (a) 136
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List of Figures
2.1 A Taxonomy of Altruism 30
7.1 Competitive vs. Cooperative Players:
Payoff Rankings and Outcomes 115
8.1 Efficiency and Distribution 127
8.2 The Economy s Four Regions 130
8.3 Ten Individuals Income Distribution 132
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