Social welfare may fall in a more ethical market

Monday, August 25, 2014 - 15:30 in Psychology & Sociology

For 'credence services' such as auto-repair, health care, and legal services, the benefit to the customers for the service is difficult to assess before and even after the service. A new study finds that in a credence services market, when more service providers care about the customer's well-being, society as whole may actually be worse off.

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