Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fairness, Equity, and Justice

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Li, Meng (Editor), Tracer, David P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Public policy.; Behavioral economics.; Anthropology.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Behavioral/Experimental Economics.; Public Policy.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

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 se...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction and Guide to the Volume by David P. Tracer & Meng Li
• Chapter 2. The Neural Basis of Fairness by Peter Vavra, Jeroen van Baar & Alan Sanfey
• Chapter 3. The Evolution of Moral Development by Mark Sheskin
• Chapter 4. Public Preferences about Fairness and the Ethics of Allocating Scarce Medical Interventions by Govind Persad
• Chapter 5. Equality by Principle, Efficiency by Practice— How Policy Description affects Allocation Preference by Meng Li & Jeff DeWitt
• Chapter 6. Resource Allocation Decisions: When do we sacrifice efficiency in the name of equity? by Tom Gordon-Hecker, Shoham Choshen-Hillel, Shaul Shalvi & Yoella Bereby-Meyer
• Chapter 7. The Logic and Location of Strong Reciprocity: Anthropological and Philosophical Considerations by Jordan Kiper and Richard Sosis
• Chapter 8. Fairness in Cultural Context by Carolyn K. Lesorogol
• Chapter 9. Justice Preferences: An Experimental Economic Study in Papua New Guinea by David P. Tracer
• Chapter 10. Framing Charitable Solicitations in a Behavioral Experiment: Cues Derived from Evolutionary Theory of Cooperation and Economic Anthropology by Shane A. Scaggs, Karen S. Fulk, Delaney Glass & John P. Ziker.