Foreword Amartya Sen; Preface Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman; 1.
Introduction: values and institutions in economic analysis Avner Ben-Ner
and Louis Putterman; Part I. The Formation and Evolution of Social Norms
and Values: 2. The simultaneous evolution of institutions and norms Robert
Sugden; 3. A utilitarian theory of political legitimacy Ken Binmore; 4. Why
do we care what others think of us? Chaim Fershtman and Yoram Weiss; 5.
Starting with nothing: on the impossibility of grounding: norms solely in
self-interest Jane Mansbridge; Part II. The Generation and Transmission of
Values in Families and Communities: 6. Did father know best? Families,
markets, and the supply of caring labor Nancy Folbre and Tom Weisskopf; 7.
How communities govern: the structural basis of pro-social norms Samuel
Bowles and Herbert Gintis; 8. The limits or moral diversity Timur Kuran; 9.
Moral diversity and specialized values: some observations John Michael
Montias; Part III. Social Norms and Culture: 10. Social norms as positional
arms control agreements Robert Frank; 11. Gifts and bribes Susan
Rose-Ackerman; 12. How do we know whether a monetary transaction is a gift,
an entitlement, or a payment? Viviana Zelizer; Part IV. The Organization of
Work, Trust, and Incentives: 13. How effective are trust- and
reciprocity-based incentives? Ernst Fehr and Simon Gächter; 14. Worker
trust, system vulnerability, and the performance of work groups Andrew
Schotter; 15. Trust: beliefs and morality Jonathan Baron; 16. Who is the
custodian of the custodians? Russell Hardin; Part V. Markets, Values, and
Welfare: 17. Institutions and morale: the crowding-out effect Bruno S.
Frey; 18. The joyless market economy Robert Lane; Epilogue: historical
evolution of values and institutions Douglass North.
