1/N Can ethical people gain power inside unethical organizations?

In our new paper with @bahniks.bsky.social (and originally @mvranka.bsky.social, before he left our team), we study a difficult problem: prosocial will may not be enough when the dominant coalition benefits from harmful practices.

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1/N After 5 years in the making, this paper is finally out. “How to React in the Case of Powerful Transgressors: Kill Them With Kindness or Punishment?” We study situations in which a superior acts unethically and what actually follows from punishing, forgiving, or avoiding them.

Are teachers objective and impartial when grading (business school) students? Our new (with @bahniks.bsky.social and Simon Senčar) mixed-methods paper examines “grade enhancement”: the practice of raising grades without corresponding improvements in performance. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mNHq38nsw...

#WINIR2025 starts today. Our exciting programme kicks off this afternoon winir.org/winir-2025/ at the campus of Faculty of Business Administration, VŠE

Our new paper on self-selection effects in dishonesty with @petrhoudek.bsky.social, @marekhudik.bsky.social, and Nicolas Say is out now: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMN67tbfH...

Soudkyně Barbara ministryní spravedlnosti!

The issue is not so much whether the market is a "tool," it’s how much control we actually have over it. This echoes Thomas Sowell’s clash between the constrained vision (human nature is stable) and the unconstrained vision (human behavior is infinitely malleable). 1/5

Náš kolega @marekhudik.bsky.social o rozporu mezi dnešním konzervatismem a jeho tradiční podobou.
denikn.cz/1739131/od-l...

We are hiring up to 3 postdoctoral researchers in economics, psychology, or organizational studies to join our interdisciplinary group at the Prague University of Economics and Business: im.vse.cz/cevyz/englis...

Check out our latest working paper, "Understanding Appointment Decisions: Do Material Interests Trump the Ethical Imperatives?" with @bahniks.bsky.social @petrhoudek.bsky.social and Nicolas Say. 1/5

My modest contribution to the attempts to define externality is now published in Public Choice.

I argue that the analysis of externalities should shift its focus from spillover effects to the mechanisms for allocating scarce resources among competing plans.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

V novém článku v časopisu Vesmír s Pavlem Potužákem píšeme:

"...ekonomie nepovažuje environmentální otázky a problém globální nerovnosti za méně důležité než problematiku ekonomického růstu. " 1/3