NDLI: Which Ethics Will Make us Individually and Socially Happier? A Cross-Culture and Cross-Development Analytical Model

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Author	Zagonari, Fabio
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	This paper provides an analytical model representing four polar ethical approaches drawn from the main ethical positions suggested by the philosophical, psychological, and socio-economic literature. Moreover, it develops the model in order to obtain rankings of the four approaches in terms of happiness and, consequently, to provide insights into which ethical approach should best be adopted by each individual, according to his characteristics (income level, in developed countries (DCs) or in less developed countries (LDCs), aspiration level): some dynamics are also predicted, if the Golden and the Copper Rules are applied. Finally, this paper provides insights into which ethical approach should best be adopted by each society, according to its characteristics (DCs or LDCs, social distribution of aspiration levels), by predicting happiness levels in alternative countries, according to the prevailing ethics, and by comparing these predictions with the observed happiness levels, thus providing an empirical test of the analytical model: some dynamics are again predicted, with non-Protestant DCs moving to higher, and Protestant DCs towards lower, happiness levels (conditioned to the per capita income), due to the increasing and decreasing rejection of the Golden and Copper Rules, respectively, and with LDCs moving to lower (conditioned to the increasing per capita income) in the short-run and higher happiness levels in the long run, by establishing and entertaining conditions that set clear incentives for moral behaviour, in order to increase and decrease the adoption of the Golden and Copper Rules, respectively.
Starting Page	77
Ending Page	103
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13894978
Journal	Journal of Happiness Studies
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15737780
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-12-02
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Ethics Happiness Freedom Rationality Culture Religion Economics Philosophy Quality of Life Research Economics/Management Science Personality and Social Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Sciences

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