A free paper with the ideas is at http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/11-064.pdf I was interested because I find professional ethics and religious morality collapse under circumstances of self-interest and become rationalisation. WE need creative solutions - but there is a dark side to creativity.
On 24 Dec, 22:03, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > "The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone — > Especially Ourselves" by Dan Ariely asks a seemingly simple question — > “is dishonesty largely restricted to a few bad apples, or is it a more > widespread problem?” — and goes on to reveal the surprising, > illuminating, often unsettling truths that underpin the uncomfortable > answer. Like cruelty, dishonesty turns out to be a remarkably > prevalent phenomenon better explained by circumstances and cognitive > processes than by concepts like character. > > Work like this is challenging traditional economics - the genre is > 'behavioural economics'. My own take on this book and a lot of work > from brain science and history is that we are at a tipping point in > respect of the possibility of a human science. I'd like to see a > broader literature take up this challenge beyond current drivel on > black and white hats. > > So what are you guys reading? --
