ISBN:
9780300163803
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9780300230512
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 272 Seiten
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Additional Information:
Kommentar in Kranton, Rachel E. The devil is in the details 2019
Series Statement:
The Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bowles, Samuel, 1936 - The moral economy
DDC:
330
Keywords:
Wirtschaftsethik
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Anreiz
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Homo Oeconomicus
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Good Governance
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Economics Moral and ethical aspects
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Law and economics
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Wirtschaftsethik
Abstract:
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
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-266
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Parts of this book were given as the Castle Lectures in Yale's Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, delivered by Samuel Bowles at Yale University in 2010. -- Seite v
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