Individual versus group morality: the role of information

Sambit Mohanty, Jaideep Roy

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Abstract

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 languageEnglish
Number of pages24
JournalEconomics & Philosophy
Early online date20 Sept 2024
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 20 Sept 2024

Acknowledgements

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.

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