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IQ, personality and the payday effect in horse race betting

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
We investigate increases in betting activity, on both the extensive and intensive margins, in response to predictable changes in financial resources. We examine the extent to which income, cognitive ability, and the personality traits conscientiousness and extraversion predict these choices.
Tuomo Kainulainen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric sanctions and corruption: Theory and practice in China

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Asymmetric punishment of partners in crime, intended to incentivize whistle‐blowing, may increase detection and deterrence. The idea is age‐old but its use against corruption is not frequent. We study a 1997 Chinese reform that strengthened such asymmetries for some forms of bribery.
Maria Perrotta Berlin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kant's Dialectic of Enlightenment

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Kant's moral thought emphasizes both our ability to make adequate, immediate moral judgment, as well as our deep‐seated forms of self‐entrapment. Strikingly, these forms of self‐entrapment are not simply the result of reason being overpowered by forces external to it, but arise out of reason itself, as pathological versions of otherwise ...
Laurenz Ramsauer
wiley   +1 more source

“A minimum of domination”—the overt normative orientation of Foucault's work

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Answering the charge of ‘crypto‐normativity’ that has long overshadowed Michel Foucault's work, I argue that this work is animated by an overt normative orientation to keep domination to a minimum. This orientation operates both at the level of content and form.
Fabian Freyenhagen
wiley   +1 more source

Mutual Recognition and Moral Luck

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract According to contractualists, whether we are able to lead a flourishing and meaningful life is influenced, in part, by our capacity to relate to other rational self‐governing beings on mutually justifiable terms. At the same time, it seems that our success in relating with our fellow rational creatures on terms that they could not reasonably ...
Ken Oshitani
wiley   +1 more source

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