Morals and Markets The Dangerous Balance

Friedman and McNeill draw on recent research in evolutionary game theory and behavioral economics to explore the relationship between our moral codes and our market systems. They show how imbalance between morals and markets is at the root of the recent c

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Morals and Markets

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Morals and Markets

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Daniel Friedman and Daniel McNeill

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The Dangerous Balance

MORALS AND MARKETS

Copyright © Daniel Friedman and Daniel McNeill, 2013. All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.

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To Rosalind Gold, with love. —D. M.

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To the memory of my mom, Marion Thelma Siegel Friedman (1918–1997). Biology teacher and humanist, skeptic and spiritual seeker, she first got me thinking about many of questions asked in this book. —D. F.

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Prologue: A Tale of Two Tilts I

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Two Halves of the Balance

1 The Savanna Code: What Good Are Morals? 2 The Rise of W