Ethics and economy

This project will try to build and test a model that includes dutifulness and contracting, as a way of studying the tension between what is best for the individual and what is best for the group.

In any society, one of the main challenges is to tackle tensions between what is best for the individual and what is best for the group. This project aspires to take a closer look at two of the most prominent solutions, namely personal sacrifice and mutual agreement (contracts). Specifically, the project aims to develop new models of dutifulness and contracting and to confront them with both existing and new evidence.

The project builds upon a conceptual framework that the team has already developed, and data that has already been collected. When the theory has been tested in a laboratory setting, it is to be taken to the field in order to explore how to efficiently create duties and maintain dutifulness in relevant real-life settings.

IFFS is a project member in this project, and the people listed below are people employed at IFFS. The project owner is Stockholm School of Economics, where you will find the PI Tore Ellingsen.

Duration

2025-2028

Principal Investigator

Erik Mohlin Associate Professor, Economics

Other project members

Funding

Knut and Alice Wallenbergs Foundation