Format:
XVI, 202 S.
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780691151601
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9780691161020
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069116102X
Content:
Why worry about incentives? -- Incentives then and now : the clock and the engineer -- "Incentives talk" : what are incentives anyway? -- Ethical and not so ethical incentives -- Applying standards, making judgments -- Getting down to cases : plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, IMF loan conditions, motivating children to learn -- Beyond voluntariness -- A different kind of conversation
Content:
Incentives can be found everywhere - in schools, businesses, factories, and government - influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing. So long as people have a choice, incentives seem innocuous. But "Strings Attached" demonstrates that when incentives are viewed as a kind of power rather than as a form of exchange, many ethical questions arise: How do incentives affect character and institutional culture? Can incentives be manipulative or exploitative, even if people are free to refuse them? And what are the responsibilities of the powerful in using incentives? Ruth Grant shows that, like all other forms of power, incentives can be subject to abuse, and she identifies their legitimate and illegitimate uses. Grant offers a history of the growth of incentives in early twentieth-century America, identifies standards for judging incentives, and examines incentives in four areas - plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, International Monetary Fund loan conditions, and motivating students. In every case, the analysis of incentives in terms of power yields strikingly different and more complex judgments than an analysis that views incentives as trades, in which the desired behavior is freely exchanged for the incentives offered. Challenging the role and function of incentives in a democracy, "Strings Attached" questions whether the penchant for constant incentivizing undermines active, autonomous citizenship. Readers of this book are sure to view the ethics of incentives in a new light
Note:
Originally published in hardcover: New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index
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Why worry about incentives? -- Incentives then and now : the clock and the engineer -- "Incentives talk" : what are incentives anyway? -- Ethical and not so ethical incentives -- Applying standards, making judgments -- Getting down to cases : plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, IMF loan conditions, motivating children to learn -- Beyond voluntariness -- A different kind of conversation.
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Grant, Ruth Weissbourd Strings Attached Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012 ISBN 9781400839742
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Grant, Ruth W. Strings attached Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011 ISBN 9781400839742
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1400839742
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283267454
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691151601
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781283267458
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691151601
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Anreiz
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Motivation
;
Ethik
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