In den von den Autoren Jan Engelmann und Philipp Otto von iRights.Lab durchgeführten Interviews legen 14 Personen aus unterschiedlichsten beruflichen Kontexten ihre Gedanken zum Status quo und der Zukunft der Digitalisierung dar. Ausgangspunkt sind die beiden Corona-Jahre 2020/21, die als...

Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here the...

In a wide variety of settings, spiteful preferences would constitute an obstacle to cooperation, trade, and thus economic development. This paper shows that spiteful preferences - the desire to reduce another's material payoff for the mere purpose of increasing one's relative payoff - are...

Well-functioning groups enforce social norms that restrain opportunism, but the social structure of a society may encourage or inhibit norm enforcement. This paper studies how the exogenous assignment to different positions in an extreme social hierarchy - the caste system - affects individuals'...