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The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens (Castle Lecture Series)

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The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens (Castle Lecture Series)

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

Should the idea of economic manâ€”the amoral and self-interested Homo economicusâ€”determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding â€œno.â€ Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may â€œcrowd outâ€ ethical and generous motives and thus backfire.
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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.
Country USA
Brand Yale University Press
Manufacturer Yale University Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-05-24
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780300163803

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