原帖由 vesley1987 于 2010-1-22 20:12 发表
NO.
My payoff comes from the fact that I always vote strictly according to my own perception of whether the suspect is guilty or not.
如果我已经做到了这一点,而陪审团的最终结果与此不符(只可能是 ...
I have repeated stressed this point: We economist do not argue what somebody's objective is.
Our research is to show that under a given objective, what would people do.
If you use your own objective stated here, of course, jurists actions will be very different.
But this has got nothing to do with the article, which investigate jurists actions under a different objective.
An economist can not tell you which objective is the correct one, only what people's actions will be, if given an objective.
So if you are questioning the objective assumed in the article, that is fine. But this does not mean the logics in the article is wrong. In fact if you read the paper, the logics are completely supported by rigorous maths.
Also, there is not way to argue that your objective stated above is more reasonable than the objective stated in the paper.
To argue about this is to argue about things like: Do people really only care about monetary payoff? Do they care about their emotional payoff?
Mainstream economics has no answer to those questions. What we can do is to answer what if people mainly care about money, or what if people also care about emotions. |