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Money burning and stealing in the laboratory: how conflicting ideologies emerge
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Three experiments on utility interdependence are discussed. Subjects receive money by betting and possibly by arbitrary assignments. They can then pay to reduce and, possibly, redistribute the steal money; in one case, only the decisions of a randomly determined dictator are implemented. The behavior of 80% of burners and redistributors was rank egalitarian. However, arbitrarily advantaged and disadvantaged subjects developed conflicting views of desert: arbitrarily disadvantaged subjects tar...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Publisher:
- University of Oxford Publisher's website
- Series:
- Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2000-10-01
- Paper number:
- 40
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1144387
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- pubs:1144387
- Deposit date:
- 2020-12-15
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- 2000
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- Copyright 2000 The Author(s)
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