Social Norms
Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Daniel Chen

Toulouse School of Economics

Daniel Chen

Origin and Consequences of Normative Commitment

Abstract

Economics has traditionally and still takes a consequentialist view of both individual behavior and welfare evaluations. In contrast, philosophers and legal theorists do not necessarily take a consequentialist view, and commonly assume deontological motivations. Do people have deontological motivations? How might we identify them? What are the origins and consequences of deontological or consequentialist motivations?