Foreword Amartya Sen

Preface Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman

1. Introduction: values and institutions in economic analysis Avner Ben-Ner and Louis Putterman

Part I. The Formation and Evolution of Social Norms and Values: 2. The simultaneous evolution of institutions and norms Robert Sugden

3. A utilitarian theory of political legitimacy Ken Binmore

4. Why do we care what others think of us? Chaim Fershtman and Yoram Weiss

5. Starting with nothing: on the impossibility of grounding: norms solely in self-interest Jane Mansbridge

Part II. The Generation and Transmission of Values in Families and Communities: 6. Did father know best? Families, markets, and the supply of caring labor Nancy Folbre and Tom Weisskopf

7. How communities govern: the structural basis of pro-social norms Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

8. The limits or moral diversity Timur Kuran

9. Moral diversity and specialized values: some observations John Michael Montias

Part III. Social Norms and Culture: 10. Social norms as positional arms control agreements Robert Frank

11. Gifts and bribes Susan Rose-Ackerman

12. How do we know whether a monetary transaction is a gift, an entitlement, or a payment? Viviana Zelizer

Part IV. The Organization of Work, Trust, and Incentives: 13. How effective are trust- and reciprocity-based incentives? Ernst Fehr and Simon Gä

chter

14. Worker trust, system vulnerability, and the performance of work groups Andrew Schotter

15. Trust: beliefs and morality Jonathan Baron

16. Who is the custodian of the custodians? Russell Hardin

Part V. Markets, Values, and Welfare: 17. Institutions and morale: the crowding-out effect Bruno S. Frey

18. The joyless market economy Robert Lane

Epilogue: historical evolution of values and institutions Douglass North.