Exogenous Virtues: Return to Romance

• In Event: JSS 9
  In JSS Session: Live Ideas in the History of Political Thought

Brief Overview

This paper investigates how we can hope to have institutions which rely on virtue, but which do not incentivize it. Also, it discusses methodological approaches which assume away virtue and high ideals, as in the Public Choice tradition.

Author

• Samuel B Schmitt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill