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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

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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.

Metadaten
Titel
The Shadow Economy and Morals: A Note
verfasst von
Ekkehart Schlicht
Copyright-Jahr
1985
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88408-5_16