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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fairness, Equity, and Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fairness, Equity, and Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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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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