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martedì 20 febbraio 2018

Contro lo spreco dell'etica

Mercato: 20% etica, 80% egosmo.
Il mercato non escude la virtù, la economizza.
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La moralità del mercato

Giochino: ti consegno 100 euro, offrirai parte del tuo patrimonio a un terzo che è al corrente di tutto, se costui accetta intascherete l'intera somma, in caso contrario restituirete i 100 euro.
Dato empirico: chi proviene da paesi con economie di mercato offre di più.
Il mercato e la cultura degli affari ci rende più sensibili alla reciprocitá.
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mercoledì 31 gennaio 2018

Etica e/o mercato

Sulla scorta di una querelle che opponeva le ragioni dell’economia a quelle della morale, cioè l’utilità dell’egoismo nel commercio al precetto dell’altruismo predicato dalla religione cristiana, Mandeville sostiene che proprio favorendo l’inclinazione degli individui alla ricchezza, al lusso, ai piaceri, in una parola a ciò che la morale pubblica giudica "vizio", la società fiorisce, si accresce, si espande e rende possibili tutti i vantaggi del vivere prospero e civile.
Cosa spinge un uomo a commettere atti valorosi se non il desiderio di rendersi meritevole di lodi? Che ne sarebbe delle donne oneste se non ci fossero quelle di…
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venerdì 15 dicembre 2017

La responsabilità sociale dell’impresa (RSI)

La responsabilità sociale dell’impresa (RSI)

Sembra quasi che l’alternativa alla RSI sia l’irresponsabilità sociale dell’impresa.
Sembra quasi che chi dissente appoggi l’amoralità dei soggetti economici.
No: la posizione alternativa si chiama “etica degli affari” (EA).
L’ EA sostiene che l’impresa giusta sia tenuta a rispettare le regole di mercato (ed eventualmente a non trarre profitto dalle imperfezioni di mercato).
La RSI lega invece l’impresa alla “società in generale”.
Per l’ EA assumere al minor stipendio possibile o vendere al maggior prezzo possibile non è un misfatto dal punto di vista etico, per RSI sì.
Per l’ EA fare bene il proprio lavoro è cio’ che conta. I fautori di RSI vogliono ben altro dall’impresa.
Chi appartiene al movimento della RSI riconosce che l’impresa produca beni e servizi utili, che dia lavoro, che crei opportunità di investimento, che paghi le tasse, che segue le regole di mercato… detto questo si chiede: “sì, ma cosa fa per la società?”.
Chi si pone una domanda del genere non ha capito bene cosa sia il capitalismo.
Lo scopo dell’impresa non è quello di fornire posti di lavoro ma merci che la società richiede.
E’ il lavoro ad essere funzionale alle merci, non viceversa. Invertire i termini produce alienazione.
L’impresa contribuisce al miglioramento della società perseguendo il suo profitto.
Quando comincia il contributo di Bill Gates alla società in cui vive?
Nel 1994 quando fonda la “Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation” o nel 1975 quando fonda Microsoft?
Mettere la potenza di un PC in ogni casa e ufficio è stato il suo primo – e maggiore – contributo al miglioramento della società in cui vive, questo deve ammetterlo anche chi non è un fan di Microsoft.
Inoltre, i fautori della RSI rischiano di alzare una cortina fumogena.
Se una società falsifica i bilanci cosa mi frega se poi tratta i suoi dipendenti come principini?
Chiedendo all’impresa di perseguire obbiettivi che non sono i suoi, finisce per mischiarli con quelli suoi propri. Finisce per giustificare di fatto forme di compensazione etica improprie.
No: c’è solo un dovere, essere dei concorrenti leali.
Come se non bastasse, il concetto di RSI produce un grande spreco di risorse in termini di attenzione dei manager, del pubblico e dei media.
I manager, anziché focalizzarsi sui profitti onesti, spendono un mucchio di risorse in conferenze, tavole rotonde e cene di lavoro. Il tutto per studiare e pubblicizzare le attività “sociali” dell’impresa.
i giornali, anziché riferire e commentare i successi e i fallimenti commerciali, si concentrano senza costrutto sulle loro attività sociali promosse dal CEO di turno, oppure sulle proteste degli attivisti.
Cosa succederebbe se tutte queste risorse fossero reindirizzate per rendere più efficace il terreno di gioco su cui le imprese si sfidano in concorrenza leale.
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martedì 1 marzo 2016

12 The Crowding out Objection - Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests by Jason F. Brennan, Peter Jaworski

12 The Crowding out Objection - Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests by Jason F. Brennan, Peter Jaworski - #virtùperduta #donatoridisange #aritmeticapazza #voti&applausi #nobelconassegno #trasfigurazionedelsoldo
12 The Crowding out ObjectionRead more at location 2461
Note:  Edit
The ProblemRead more at location 2463
certain markets crowd out or reduce our intrinsic motivation. The complaint is that people are motivated to do certain things for their own sake.Read more at location 2464
Note: COSA SI LAMENTA Edit
Virtue stops being its own reward once we start rewarding virtue.Read more at location 2466
Note: VIRTÙ PERDUTA Edit
this is an empirical question.Read more at location 2467
Note: EMPIRIA Edit
there is a great deal of work that has already been done on the market for labor, and on different compensation schemes.Read more at location 2468
Note: LAVORO E SCHEMI COMPENSATIVI Edit
It seems like commonsense economics that as you offer workers more money, you should see an increase in the quantity of workRead more at location 2471
Note: LA LEGGE DELL INCENTIVO Edit
What social psychologists call the “overjustification effect” and what economists call the “crowding-out effect” sometimes works against this expected result.Read more at location 2474
Note: L ECCEZIONE Edit
paying more leads to getting less. Sometimes, introducing an external financial reward where once there was none can lead to less of the desired behavior.Read more at location 2475
The Overjustification EffectRead more at location 2477
Suppose you see a sign at your workplace asking you to donate blood. The sign tells you that there is a shortage of blood,Read more at location 2480
Note: I DONATORI DI SANGUE Edit
At the blood bank, you notice that the staff are handing out checks for $25 to the people who donate blood. “That’s great!” some economists might say. You now have two reasonsRead more at location 2483
Note: 2 RAGIONI Edit
When we have two reasons to do something, sometimes, instead of the two reasons adding up, we get one reason replacing the other.Read more at location 2488
Note: ARITMETICA PAZZA Edit
Control: Imagine having the following internal monologue. “Why am I planning to give blood?” you might ask yourself. The answer you want to give is “because I’m moved by the plight of others, because I want to help,Read more at location 2493
Note: RAGIONI DI SPIAZZAMENTO. IL CONTROLLO Edit
signal to others that we are a certain sort of person.Read more at location 2506
Note: SECONDA RAGIONE: VOGLIAMO SEGNALARE Edit
rather than changing our motivation, which remains constant, the framing hypothesis seeks to explain the overjustification effect by suggesting that certain cues can alter what we take to be the appropriate method or procedure for making decisions. The relevant question becomes “what kind of a situation is this?” rather than, “who’s in charge here?” or “what does this say about me?”Read more at location 2516
Note: TERZA RAGIONE. FRAME Edit
presenting the Bible to subjects prior to an economic game results in players making fairer offers, or playing in less selfish ways.Read more at location 2522
Note: LA BIBBIA CI RENDE BUONI Edit
Within a business frame, standard economic cost-benefit analysis and calculation dominates.Read more at location 2531
Note: IL FRAME ECONOMICISTA CI TRASFORMA Edit
This frame makes us behave more like homo economicus.Read more at location 2532
The offer of money can engage a business frame,Read more at location 2535
possibility of paying for reading. Sandel might worry that the overjustification effect may trump our intrinsic motivationRead more at location 2537
Note: PAGARE LO STUDENTE Edit
compensation for reading can frame the reading as an instrumental tool in the pursuit of the real end, that of getting paid. And once we’re in a homo economicus mood, we then might be less prone to enjoy reading for its own sake.Read more at location 2539
Elizabeth Anderson6 describes the siting of a nuclear waste facility as another example of the overjustification effect or a framing effect in action.Read more at location 2544
Note: NIMBY Edit
to keep in mind what the anti-commodification thesis claims. The claim is not that there are better and worse ways of having a market in blood,Read more at location 2551
Note: NON DIMENTICHIAMO LA TESI CENTRALE ANTI MARKET Edit
thesis is the claim that there are some things that should not be bought and sold;Read more at location 2553
not that there are better and worse ways to pay or compensate someone,Read more at location 2555
Note: COSA NN SOSTIENE L ANTI MARKET Edit
If we could show that there’s a way of having a market in kidneys, for example, that avoids all of the objections anti-commodification theorists offer, then that would effectively undermine the anti-commodification viewRead more at location 2557
Note: MERCATO DEGLI ORGANI Edit
We would reduce the anti-commodification thesis about how kidneys are not commodities at all, to a business ethics thesis about how best to sell a kidney.Read more at location 2559
Note: DALLA PROIBIZIONE ALLA BUSINESS ETHIC Edit
Time, Place, Manner: What the Research ShowsRead more at location 2562
Judy Cameron conducted two separate meta-analyses on the overjustification effect with a different co-author for each.Read more at location 2563
Note: CAMERON Edit
“overall, reward does not decrease intrinsic motivation.”Read more at location 2566
Note: ESITO Edit
crowding-out effect of extrinsic rewards, like money, on intrinsic interest and creativity was only observable “under highly restricted, easily avoidable conditions.”Read more at location 2568
“easily attainable using procedures derived from behavior theory.” This work, however, has been challenged.Read more at location 2570
Psychologists and economists working on these fields point out that the overjustification effect obtains under certain very specific conditions.Read more at location 2578
Note: CONDIZIONI PARTICOLARI Edit
Bruno S. Frey explains that we can expect a crowding-out effect when the external reward is regarded by the subject as “controlling” their behavior.Read more at location 2579
Note: BRUNO FREY Edit
On this view, not all external rewards undermine intrinsic motivation. Verbal rewards can be perceived as informational (as applauding competence, for example) or as controlling. Grades can be “controlling” when a student perceives herself as studying and reading purely or primarily for the sake of the grade.Read more at location 2585
Note: VOTI E APPLAUSI Edit
students can internalize the reward system and thereby maintain or enhance their intrinsic motivation.12 Grades can be regarded as a symbol of achievement,Read more at location 2588
David Rosenfield, Robert Folger, and Harold F. Adelman found that intrinsic motivation declined when presented with an external reward, unless the reward was seen to reflect competence.Read more at location 2590
Note: LA RICOMPENSA E IL SIMBOLO Edit
The overjustification effect is not a reason to stop grading students.Read more at location 2594
Note: VOTO Edit
with some ways of grading students being better than others.Read more at location 2595
at best, the crowding effect can support the view that we shouldn’t pay people like this or like that, but it cannot underwrite the claim that we ought not compensate people for something or other at all.Read more at location 2599
Note: CONCLUSIONE Edit
despite identical payoff structures, M. Pillutla and X. P. Chen managed to get more cooperation when a dilemma was framed in a noneconomic way,Read more at location 2603
Note: COOPERAZIONE ED ECONOMICISMO Edit
But how we frame what we’re doing does not change what we’re doing.Read more at location 2604
Charities often attempt to loosen our grip on our wallets by making use of devices that put us in a charitable and caring frame of mind.Read more at location 2607
Note: LA FILANTROPIA Edit
When Money Isn’t MoneyRead more at location 2614
Mellstrom and Johannesson discovered that a sum of money paid to women for blood donation lowered willingness to donate blood.15 But they also found that the effect disappeared when they paid in the form of a charitable donation to a charity of the subject’s choice.Read more at location 2615
Note: LA TRASFIGURAZIONE DEL DENARO Edit
Awards function similarly. For some kind of awards, a financial component may seem less than fitting.Read more at location 2620
Note: PREMI IN DENARO Edit
Consider several general kinds of possible awards: an award for exceptionally fulfilling one’s civic duty,Read more at location 2622
In each of these cases, if the award is coupled with some kind of financial compensation, we can predict that the meaning of the award may be sullied or profaned.Read more at location 2623
Nobel Prize for literature comes with a cool one million dollars. And yet, no one believes this prize is less meaningful, less significant, or profanedRead more at location 2625
Note: NOBEL Edit
Michael Sandel received the Harvard-Radcliffe Phi Beta Kappa award for undergraduate teaching.Read more at location 2626
Note: SANDEL PRESO IN CSTAGNA Edit
The award comes with a check for $100.Read more at location 2628
Finally, and most illustratively, consider the Museum of the City of New York award for improving the quality of life of city residents.Read more at location 2629
If all that is true, then notice that Sandel’s Oxford professor who objected to a monetary tip from a student applied one particular interpretive heuristic to the tip,Read more at location 2645
Note: EURISTICA Edit
When, in the movie A Beautiful Mind, John Nash is given pens from fellow professors at the Princeton Faculty Club, the ritual is suffused with meaning.Read more at location 2647
Note: RITO CERIMONIA Edit
The very same can be done with a gift of money for reading, if it were surrounded by some kind of ritual or ceremony that helped the child see the significance of the reward as symbolically more meaningful than the sum.Read more at location 2652
Carruthers and Espeland explain that “[l]ike all other social objects, money has meaning that depends on its use and context.Read more at location 2654
Note: IL SIGNIFICATO. COME SI FORMA? Edit
Using Wittgenstein’s views on language, they argue that, “[t]he meaning of money, like the meaning of words, cannot be reduced to that which it represents.Read more at location 2656
Note: WITTGEINSTEIN Edit
They discovered that how much and when you are paid are not the only variables that can impact effort, satisfaction, and performance. According to them, “who distributes the monetary reward, why the reward is distributed, how the reward is distributed, and who receives it” all matter in creating symbolic meanings that can further motivate employees, and give them greater job satisfaction.Read more at location 2663
Note: QUANTO. COME. CHI. DOVE. PERCHÈ Edit
AuctionsRead more at location 2672
Viviana Zelizer has demonstrated that money can be regarded as a gift,Read more at location 2672
Note: IL DENARO COME DONO Edit
altering how we are paid, can alter the symbolic meaning of that money.Read more at location 2675
While employers may ritualize the payment of bonuses and make a ceremony of certain kinds of compensation, we have a set of different kinds of markets with long-standing histories and traditions.Read more at location 2682
Note: IL RITO DEL COMPENSO Edit
The Ascending-bid auction, which is also called an English auction, involves a seller who “gradually raises the price, bidders drop out until finally only one bidder remains, and that bidder wins the object at this final price.” Descending-bid auctions, also called Dutch auctions, involve a seller who “gradually lowers the priceRead more at location 2685
Note: ASTA INGLESE E ASTA OLANDESE Edit
There are First-price sealed-bid auctions, where bidders write their bid and place it in an envelope,Read more at location 2688
Note: ASTA IN BUSTA Edit
Second-price sealed-bid auction, also called a Vickrey auction, which functions the very same as the First-price sealed-bid auction except that the highest bidder gets the item while paying the second-highest bid.Read more at location 2690
Note: VIKREY ASTA Edit
All-pay auction, where bidders submit a bid, the highest bidder gets the auctioned item, but all bidders pay.Read more at location 2692
Note: ASTA TOTALE Edit
Arjan Appadurai, for example, insists that “[a]uctions accentuate the commodity dimension of objects (such as paintings) in a manner that might well be regarded as deeply inappropriate in other contexts.”Read more at location 2699
Note: CONTRO L ASTA Edit
Charles W. Smith,23 an economic sociologist who produced the seminal work on the sociology of auctions.Read more at location 2709
Note: SMITH E LE ASTE Edit
for those of us on the outside looking in, as spectators, all we see is a crass battle of self-interested buyers trying to outbid each other. But for the participants to auctions, the kind of auction, the physical location, the particular participants, and how it’s done all combine for a deeply meaningful performance, a performance that sometimes accentuates the commodity dimension of objects, but often times decommodifies those dimensions in the act of auctioning off an object.Read more at location 2710
Note: LA STRUTTURA SOCIALE DELL ASTA Edit
Smith calls the “social structure” of auctions is similar to what we call the time, place, and manner of markets: “… the influence of time, place, and situation, and the importance of past and ongoing practices, all play a role in establishing values.”Read more at location 2720
Rather than “accentuate the commodity aspect” of an item, auctions help us navigate deeply ambiguous and difficult translations of object to financial price.Read more at location 2725
Note: ASTE X SMATERIALIZZARE Edit
art auctions,Read more at location 2726
Note: ARTE Edit
unique and rare items by emphasizing differencesRead more at location 2727
Participants in auctions sometimes form long-lasting relationshipsRead more at location 2728
Note: LA COMUNITÀ DELLE ASTE Edit
agricultural commodity exchange auctions, there is an expectation that the big buyers buy up stock of the commodity at a certain price despite the fact that market forces would drop that price lower.Read more at location 2729
Note: ASTE AGRICOLE Edit
What’s more “[t]hese social, psychological, and environmental complexities of real auctions”—what we’re calling the time, place, and manner of markets—“reveal the limitations and fallacies implicit within the neoclassical economic model”Read more at location 2732
Note: I LIMITI DEI NEO CLASSICI Edit
anti-commodification theorists argue that something or other is incompatible with markets, they ignore the fact that there are many different ways of designing a market.Read more at location 2738
Note: CHI CONDANNA IL MERCATO CREDE NE ESISTA UNO SOLO Edit
Gifts Vs. Commodities?Read more at location 2742
deep division between a gift and commodity exchange.Read more at location 2743
Note: DONO VS MERCE Edit
gift institutions have had a favorable pressRead more at location 2745
Commodity exchanges represent impersonal and distant relationsRead more at location 2752
Note: LA RELAZIONE Edit
only the price of the object of exchange matters.Read more at location 2753
Note: SOLO IL PREZZO Edit
The object of exchange does not symbolize anythingRead more at location 2755
Andrej Rus, “gifts are held to be inalienable: a gift is not just ‘a watch’ but ‘a-watch-that-myfather-gave-me-for-my-birthday’.”Read more at location 2761
distinction between gift and commodity exchanges does not track the distinction between market and non-market exchanges.Read more at location 2766
Note: DONO E MERCATO Edit
Earlier, we pointed out, relying on the work of Zelizer, that money can sometimes function as a gift.Read more at location 2767
Note: ZELIZER Edit
Closer to the mark, however, bonuses and other modes of payment delivered in a particular manner can be regarded and perceived by recipients as calling for reciprocity and gratitude,Read more at location 2768
Note: BONUS. PREMIO AL LAVORATORE Edit
The same can be said of the market in organs in Iran. Here in the west, many see the commodification of organs. In the eyes of the kidney sellers in Iran, however, they perceive themselves as acting altruistically,Read more at location 2772
Note: MERCATO ORGANI IN IRAN Edit
“compensated kidney donation” rather than “kidney selling”Read more at location 2774
There may be a useful distinction between gifts and commodities, but that distinction does not distinguish markets from non-markets.Read more at location 2781
“if kidneys are not commodities, then we cannot have a market in kidneys.”Read more at location 2784
Paying Students for Good GradesRead more at location 2787
Roland FryerRead more at location 2788
Note: PAGARE GLI STUDENTI Edit
Rather than paying students directly for good grades, he tried paying them for engaging in good study habits. He also tried setting out small, concrete goals that students could reasonably reach in a week, and then paid students, teachers, and parents when the students met these weekly goals. Here the results were much more positive.Read more at location 2790
Note: NN FISSARE OBBIETTIVI TROPPO ALTI Edit
In an earlier study co-authored with David Austen-Smith, Fryer discovered that black and Hispanic students had a strong social disincentive against performing well in school.Read more at location 2794
Note: ACTING WITHE Edit
for blacks and Hispanics, getting above average grades tends to cause them to become less popular.Read more at location 2797
“acting white.”Read more at location 2798
There’s little here for the market to crowd out or corrupt. If Fryer’s experiments work, at best, he’ll get students to learn to love reading for its own sake. A second best result is that he’ll at least get them to read.Read more at location 2807
Note: SECOND BEST