Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Congleton, Roger D. (1951-....)
Titre(s) : Solving social dilemmas [Texte électronique] : ethics, politics, and prosperity / Roger D. Congleton
Publication : New York (N.Y.) : Oxford university press, 2022
Description matérielle : 1 online resource
Note(s) : Bibliogr., 13 p. Index
Sujet(s) : Choix collectif -- Aspect moral
Morale sociale
Économie politique -- Aspect moral
Indice(s) Dewey :
330.122 01 (23e éd.) = Économie de la libre entreprise - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197642818. - ISBN 0197642810. - ISBN 9780197642801. - ISBN 0197642802. -
ISBN 9780197642795. - ISBN 0197642799. - ISBN 9780197642788 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47269651r
Notice n° :
FRBNF47269651
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Résumé : "Solving Social Dilemmas demonstrates that social, political, and economic progress
occur when ethical dispositions evolve in a manner that solves or ameliorate social
dilemmas. That same process can account for the emergence of prosperous societies
in the West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was substantially
a consequence of increased moral support for commerce and careers in commerce that
had emerged during the previous two centuries. To support these claims, two analytical
histories are developed. The first uses elementary game theory to illustrate how critical
social dilemmas can be solved by internalized ethical ideas about "proper" or "moral"
conduct. That analytical history implies that in the absence of solutions to critical
social dilemmas-of which there are many thousands-social, political, and economic
development tends to be curtailed. The second analytical history surveys three centuries
of ethical assessments concerning the proper role of commerce in a good life and good
society. The authors reviewed all used economic illustrations to illustrate moral
principles or how they may be applied. Because the illustrating examples are ones
that their readers would have found "obvious," they shed light on the ethical dispositions
in the communities to whom those works were addressed. Together, they reveal that
concerns about the effects of markets on ethical dispositions were diminishing during
the centuries before the great acceleration of commerce in the nineteenth century.
In fact, many of the authors reviewed argued that there was a complete harmony between
ethical dispositions and commerce. Together the two narratives imply that shifts in
norms directly and indirectly account for the relative prosperity of the West compared
to other parts of the World during the twentieth century. It turns out that flourishing
commercial societies have moral foundations"
