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Strings attached : untangling the ethics of incentives /

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 d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grant, Ruth W. (Ruth Weissbourd), 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.