1985 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Shadow Economy and Morals: A Note
verfasst von : Ekkehart Schlicht
Erschienen in: The Economics of the Shadow Economy
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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If the established rules are obeyed spontaneously in an economy, this increases economic efficiency since the uncertainties, monitoring costs and incentive problems induced by opportunism can be avoided. Opportunism will be increased by increasing the incentives for unlawful behaviour, however, and a slight increase in these incentives might cause a cumulative and self-nourishing breakdown of morals. The dangers of the growing shadow economy are louring here.