It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, but How You Play the Game
Self-Interest, Social Justice, and Mass Attitudes toward Market Transition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3765131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raymond M Duch, Raymond Duch (0000-0002-1166-7674, University of Houston), Harvey D Palmer (0000-0001-8517-0858, University of Mississippi) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 437-452 |
| Publication date | 2004-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055404001261 |
| OpenAlex | W2014019550 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 39 |
To explore systematic differences in economic reasoning and what might account for them, we investigate how sociocultural conditions affect transitions to market economies in the West African country of Benin. We probe the importance of several factors: basic economic norms, utility maximization behavior, individual-level personal capital, and individual-level social capital. The evidence, based on experiments embedded in an opinion survey, indicates that Beninese citizens widely share commitments to the basic foundations of economic interaction, e.g., property rights. The nature of social capital varies across cultural and political contexts and accounts for cross-contextual variation in the costs associated with cooperative behavior and in utility maximization behavior
Affect (linguistics · Capital (architecture · Economic Justice · Economics · Maximization · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Property rights · Public economics · Social capital · Sociocultural evolution · Sociology · Utility maximization · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Economic Growth and Development · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,76 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2020 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |