| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP4940
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| DP4940 Vive la Révolution! Long Term Returns of 1968 to the Angry Students |
| Eric Maurin; Sandra McNally
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| 发表日期 | 2005-03-23
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| 出版年 | 2005
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate individuals' recurrent struggle with cognitive dissonance as they seek to maintain, and pass on to their children, a view of the world where effort ultimately pays off and everyone gets their just deserts. This paper offers a model that helps explain: i) why most people feel such a need to believe in a ?just world?; ii) why this need, and therefore the prevalence of the belief, varies considerably across countries; iii) the implications of this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labour supply, aggregate income, and popular perceptions of the poor. The model shows in particular how complementarities arise endogenously between individuals' desired beliefs or ideological choices, resulting in two equilibria. A first, ?American? equilibrium is characterized by a high prevalence of just-world beliefs among the population and relatively laissez-faire policies. The other, ?European? equilibrium is characterized by more pessimism about the role of effort in economic outcomes and a more extensive welfare state. More generally, the paper develops a theory of collective beliefs and motivated cognitions, including those concerning ?money? (consumption) and happiness, as well as religion. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Ideology
Cognitive dissonance
Inequality
Welfare state
Social mobility
Religion
Self-control
Willpower
Memory
Psychology
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp4940
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/533839
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Eric Maurin,Sandra McNally. DP4940 Vive la Révolution! Long Term Returns of 1968 to the Angry Students. 2005.
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