This volume brings together cutting-edge research from emerging and
senior scholars alike representing a variety of disciplines that bears
on human preferences for fairness, equity and justice. Despite
predictions derived from evolutionary and economic theories that
individuals will behave in the service of maximizing their own utility
and survival, humans not only behave cooperatively, but in many
instances, truly altruistically, giving to unrelated others at a cost
to themselves. Humans also seem preoccupied like no other species with
issues of fairness, equity and justice. But what exactly is fair and
how are norms of fairness maintained? How should we decide, and how do
we decide, between equity and efficiency? How does the idea of
fairness translate across cultures? What is the relationship between
human evolution and the development of morality? The collected
chapters shed light on these questions and more to advance our
understanding of these uniquely human concerns. Structured on an
increasing scale, this volume begins by exploring issues of fairness,
equity, and justice in a micro scale, such as the neural basis of
fairness, and then progresses by considering these issues in
individual, family, and finally cultural and societal arenas.
Importantly, contributors are drawn from fields as diverse as
anthropology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, bioethics, and
psychology. Thus, the chapters provide added value and insights when
read collectively, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the distinct
disciplines as they investigate similar research questions about
prosociality. In addition, particular attention is given to
experimental research approaches and policy implications for some of
society's most pressing issues, such as allocation of scarce medical
resources and moral development of children. Thought-provoking and
informative, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fairness, Equity, and
Justice is a valuable read for public policy makers, anthropologists,
ethicists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and all those interested in
these questions about the essence of human nature.
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ISBN
9783319589930
Publisert
2018
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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