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为什么人们禁止他人的行为：一种规范从众假说
Why people ban others’ actions: A norm conformism hypothesis
摘要
Some people want to ban other people’s actions even when there are no obvious externalities. We argue that bans can arise endogenously as a consequence of social norm conformity: instead of adjusting one’s own behavior, another way to conform one’s behavior is to change the behavior of others. Assuming that a majority can ban the actions of others, the model makes testable predictions about which actions will be banned, as well as about the stable social norm. Moreover, we show that, with sufficiently strong norm conformism, bans are incommensurable in the sense that there is no majority willing to abandon the bans and tax the minority’s actions instead.
中文摘要
有些人希望禁止他人的行为，即使不存在明显的外部性。我们认为，禁令可以作为社会规范从众的结果而内生出现：与其调整自身行为，遵从规范的另一种方式是改变他人的行为。假设多数人能够禁止他人的行为，该模型对哪些行为将被禁止以及稳定的社会规范作出了可检验的预测。此外，我们表明，在规范从众足够强的情况下，禁令具有不可通约性，即不存在愿意放弃禁令并转而对少数人的行为征税的多数。