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Monday, February 5, 2024

Economics of Virtue

What Economics and Hamlet Have in Common
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/opinion/economics-hamlet-virtue.html
Virtue is usually seen as the province of religion, ethics, philosophy or psychology, but Heckman and his co-authors wrote that economics “provides a framework for giving precision and empirical content to the study of virtue ethics.” They show how that framework can be applied to “specific interventions designed to promote personality and cognition.”
 
The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/BFI_WP_2023-68.pdf