A rise in the number of moral individuals in a group can hurt the morality of the group’s collective action. In this paper, we characterize strategic environments and models of morality where this is true solely because, after all, individual morals are private information.
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 24 |
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Journal | Economics & Philosophy |
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Early online date | 20 Sept 2024 |
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Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 20 Sept 2024 |
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We thank Kaushik Basu for introducing us to the fascinating world of aggregation of morality through various insightful discussions. We also thank Debabrata Datta, Saptarshi P. Ghosh, Rajnish Kumar, K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao, Diksha Singh and Grazyna Wiejak-Roy for various comments and suggestions. As part of a larger project on group morality, this paper has also benefited from presentations at University of Warsaw, IIT Mumbai, IIFT Kolkata, Krea University and Queen’s University Belfast.