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- Provides micro foundations for institutional and evolutionary economics by performing distribution experiments in institutional settings
- Demonstrates a new way of interpreting experimental results and applying them to understanding actual social economy
- Inquiries into problems of the philosophy of social sciences about how experimental methods contribute to cognition of human behavior and are extended to social theories
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science (EESCS, volume 3)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The author scrutinizes how specific institutional conditions enhance or mute individuals’ selfish incentives or their fairness ideals such as egalitarian, performance-based, labor-value radicalism or libertarianism. From experimental results and their analysis, implications for actual problems in social economy and institutional change are derived: why performance-based pay often fails to promote workers’ productivity; why labor wages decline whereas shareholder’s values increase after financialization; and whether socially responsible investment can be a social institution for corporate governance.
The book is also addressed to philosophers of social sciences interested in how experimental methods can contribute to developing cognition of human behaviors and be extended to social theories. Referring to behavioral theorists in the history of economic thought, the author discusses the meanings of experiments in the methodology of social sciences. She also proposes new ways of interpreting experimental results by reviving historic social theories and applying them to actual social problems.
Authors and Affiliations
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Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Natsuka Tokumaru
About the author
tokumaru@econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Preference, Institution, and Distribution
Book Subtitle: An Experimental and Philosophical Approach
Authors: Natsuka Tokumaru
Series Title: Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0137-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0136-9Published: 02 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9088-2Published: 07 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0137-6Published: 19 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2198-4204
Series E-ISSN: 2198-4212
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 165
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Behavioral/Experimental Economics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Social Policy