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Social Preference, Institution, and Distribution

An Experimental and Philosophical Approach

Natsuka Tokumaru (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

165 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-0136-9 (ISBN)

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This is the first book to examine behavioral theories on social preference from institutional and philosophical perspectives using economic experiments. The experimental method in economics has challenged central behavioral assumptions based on rationality and selfishness, proposing empirical evidence that not only profit seeking but also social preferences matter in individuals’ decision making. By performing distribution experiments in institutional contexts, the author extends assumptions about human behavior to understand actual social economy. The book also aims to enrich behavioral theories of economics directed toward institutional evolution.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.

Natsuka Tokumaru, Lecturer (Dr.), Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japantokumaru@econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Preface.- I. Introduction: What Experiments Can Do in the History of Economic Thought? : From Adam Smith to Vernon Smith.- II. Fairness Ideals, Hidden Selfishness and Opportunistic Behavior: Experimental Approach.- III. What is ‘Fair’ Distribution under Collaboration? : Evidences from Lab-Experiments.- IV. Income Sharing between Workers and Investors: Experiments on Functional Income Distribution.- V. Socially Responsible Investment: Distribution among Investors, Enterprises, and Society.- VI. From Micro-Analysis to Social Theory: Wieser's Gedankenexperiment and Social Economics.- VII. Conclusion: From Empirical Behavioral Theory to Evolutionary Theory of Institution.- Appendix.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.11.2015
Reihe/Serie	Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science ; 3
Zusatzinfo	2 Illustrations, color; 22 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 165 p. 24 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
Schlagworte	Behavioral Economics • Distribution • Economic Experiment • Economic Philosophy • Social Preference
ISBN-10	981-10-0136-7 / 9811001367
ISBN-13	978-981-10-0136-9 / 9789811001369
Zustand	Neuware