How much does it cost to be ethical?
BY OSCAR GONZALEZ PERALTA
The other day, my 10 year-old son asked me how much it costs to be ethical. Not really a surprising question for the son of an ethics professor, but one that has no easy answer. So, how can we measure the impact of doing the right thing?
Contributing to the welfare of others and your own is frankly, a priori, a broad question. If I were to answer my son’s question in a simple way, I would try to turn the question around and instead ask, what happens if I don’t do the right thing? What is the cost of corruption?
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