Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fairness, Equity, and Justice
Meng Li editor David P Tracer editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
Published:12th Jun '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
ISBN: 9783319865263
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
184 pages
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017