What Price the Moral High Ground?: How to Succeed Without Selling Your Soul

by Robert H. Frank

Book Overview

Financial disasters--and stories of the greedy bankers who precipitated them--seem to underscore the idea that self-interest will always trump concerns for the greater good. Indeed, this idea is supported by the prevailing theories in both economics and evolutionary biology. But is it valid? In What Price the Moral High Ground? , economist and social critic Robert Frank challenges the notion that doing well is accomplished only at the expense of doing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691006725
• ISBN13: 9780691006727
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"