title: In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules Into a Wise Cost-Benefit Analysis-Commentary on Bennis, Medin, & Bartels (2010).
abstract: Bennis, Medin, and Bartels (2010, this issue) have contributed an interesting article on the comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have misrepresented CBA and have reached a set of conclusions that are misguided and, if adopted wholesale, potentially dangerous. Overall, they offer wise suggestions for making CBA more effective, rather than eliminating CBA as a decision-making tool.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA mbazerman@hbs.edu.
authors.forename: Max H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Bazerman
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: D Greene
keywords: cost-benefit analysis; ethics; morality; rationality