Individual versus group morality: the role of information

Sambit Mohanty and Jaideep Roy

Economics and Philosophy, 2025, vol. 41, issue 2, 252-275

Abstract: A rise in the number of moral individuals in a group can hurt the morality of the group’s collective action. In this paper, we characterize strategic environments and models of morality where this is true solely because, after all, individual morals are private information.

Date: 2025
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