if morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does…

if morality represents the way we would like the world to work and economics represents how it actually does work, then the story of feldmans bagel business lies at the very intersection of morality and economics. yes, a lot of people steal from him, but the vast majority, even though no is watching over them, do not. this outcome may surprise some people—including feldmans economist friends, who counseled him twenty years ago that his honor - system scheme would never work. but it would not have surprised adam smith. in fact, theme of smiths first book, the theory of moral sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind. “how selfish soever man may be supposed,” smith wrote, “there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.”\nwhich best describes the authors purpose in using a quotation from adam smiths book the theory of moral sentiments?\n○ to highlight their knowledge of scottish philosophers\n○ to prove that people are inherently dishonest\n○ to demonstrate that incentive is the driving force behind cheating\n○ to lend credibility and additional support to their conclusion

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