Moral Markets Zak Paul J.
Moral Markets Zak Paul J. Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? Competition and greed are certainly part of economics, but…
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Moral Markets Zak Paul J.
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? Competition and greed are certainly part of economics, but Moral Markets shows how the rules of market exchange have evolved to promote moral behavior and how exchange itself may make us more virtuous. Drawing on converging evidence from neuroscience, social science, biology, law, and philosophy, Moral Markets makes the case that modern market exchange works only because most people, most of the time, act virtuously.
Examining the biological basis of economic morality, tracing the connections between morality and markets, and exploring the profound implications of both, Moral Markets provides a surprising and fundamentally new view of economics--one that also reconnects the field to Adam Smith's position that morality has a biological basis. Moral