Cultivating Conscience How Good Laws Make Good People

Name: Cultivating Conscience How Good Laws Make Good People
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ISBN: 9780691139951

ISBN-10: 0691139954

ISBN-13: 9780691139951

Edition: 2011

Authors: Lynn Stout

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Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day, we behave unselfishly--few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good behavior and fixate on the bad things people do and how we can stop them. In this pathbreaking book, acclaimed law and economics scholar Lynn Stout argues that this focus neglects the crucial role our better impulses could play in society. Rather than lean on the power of greed to shape laws and human behavior, Stout contends that we should rely on the force of…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 5.87" wide x 8.66" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

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Acknowledgements






Franco's Choice



Holmes' Folly



Blind to Goodness: Why We Don't See Conscience






Games People Play: Unselfish Prosocial Behavior in Experimental Gaming



The Jekyll/Hyde Syndrome: A Three-Factor Social Model of Unselfish Prosocial Behavior



Origins






My Brother's Keeper. The Role of Unselfishness in Tort Law



Picking Prosocial Partners: The Story of Relational Contract



Crime, Punishment, and Community





Conclusion: Chariots of the Sun


Notes


Works Cited


Index