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The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens (Castle Lectures) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 9: Castle Lecture Series

Bowles, Samuel

 
9780300230512: The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens (Castle Lectures)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300230516 ISBN 13: 9780300230512
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Why do policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail?

Should the idea of economic man--the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus--determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding "no." Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may "crowd out" ethical and generous motives and thus backfire.

But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles shows that crowding out occurs when the message conveyed by fines and rewards is that self-interest is expected, that the employer thinks the workforce is lazy, or that the citizen cannot otherwise be trusted to contribute to the public good. Using historical and recent case studies as well as behavioral experiments, Bowles shows how well-designed incentives can crowd in the civic motives on which good governance depends.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Samuel Bowles directs the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute and is the author of Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution; A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution (with Herbert Gintis);andThe New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300230516
ISBN 13 
9780300230512
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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