Folk-economic beliefs as moral intuitions

Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan:41:e179. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18000456.

Abstract

Although Boyer & Petersen's (B&P's) cataloguing of and evolutionary explanations for folk-economic beliefs is important and valuable, the authors fail to connect their theories to existing explanations for why people do not think like economists. For instance, people often have moral intuitions akin to principles of fairness and justice that conflict with utilitarian approaches to resource allocation.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Intuition*
  • Morals*