Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People

by Lynn Stout

How the science of unselfish behavior can promote law, order, and prosperity

Contemporary law and public policy often treat human beings as selfish creatures who respond only to punishments and rewards. Yet every day we behave unselfishly--few of us mug the elderly or steal the paper from our neighbor's yard, and many of us go out of our way to help strangers. We nevertheless overlook our own good behavior and fixate on the bad things...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691139954
• ISBN13: 9780691139951
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.4"