The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life

by Augustin Landier and David Thesmar

The economic case for self-interest at the outer limits of being morally good.

Modern life is an exercise in discomfort. In the face of endless injustice, how much selfishness is permissible? How do we square suffering elsewhere with our hope to thrive at home? How does one strive for the greater good while guarding one's personal interests? The Price of Our Values argues that the answers to these questions are economic: by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226827089
• ISBN13: 9780226827087
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.