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 Accordingly, in transactions involving especially complex relational factors, the confusion created could systematically negate the moral instinct to penalize unfairness. This proposition leads to the ironic conclusion that large, market-based societies will tolerate grossly inequitable outcomes, at least in relatively complicated interactions, precisely because a sense of fairness is so deeply ingrained. On the other hand, the research reported in “Markets” suggests that the moral impulse to favor fairness over profit is fundamental to those societies, representing a powerful instrument for achieving justice.

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>		I think the paper brings up two questions. First, does the fact that people in large commerce based societies favor equitable transactions mean it is totally environmental? What is the reward mechanism in the Pavlonian experiment that produces such "fair" behavior? Can growth in GDP per capita explain some reward distributed throughout the entire society that encourages such behavior?

Second, I don't think "fairness" is a universal term that can apply the same in all societies. We are all well aware of the east/west cultural dichotomy, and such binary cultures can produce two separate ideas of "fairness".

 
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