马克斯·普朗克集体产品研究所最初是作为马克斯普朗克研究所成立的，负责研究集体商品的提供，现已发展成为一个国际中心，主要关注应用经济学和行为法的研究。此外，该研究所还主持了三个关于“道德勇气”，“经济认知”和“规范变革机制”的独立研究小组。来自经济学、法学、心理学和社会学等各个学科的研究人员构成了一个真正的跨学科环境，促进了思想的交叉施肥。该研究所的研究专长涵盖广泛的主题，包括经济偏好的形成，团队决策，可信商品市场的分析，需要法律干预的规范性问题的定义，法律干预的影响，规则的制定和规则应用，旁观者干预违反规范的心理过程，导致选择的认知和情感过程，和关于社会规范的推理。

    Originally founded as the Max Planck Institute for Collective Products, the Max Planck Institute, which is responsible for the study of the provision of collective goods, has grown into an international centre focused on applied economics and behavioral law. In addition, the institute has chaired three independent research groups on "moral courage," "economic cognition," and "mechanisms for normative change." Researchers from a variety of disciplines, including economics, law, psychology and sociology, constitute a truly interdisciplinary environment that fosters the cross-fertilization of ideas. The Institute's research expertise covers a wide range of topics, including the formation of economic preferences, team decision-making, the analysis of trusted commodity markets, the definition of normative issues that require legal intervention, the effects of legal intervention, the formulation and application of rules, the mental processes of bystander intervention that violate norms, the cognitive and emotional processes that lead to choice, and reasoning about social norms.