Strings Attached : Untangling the Ethics of Incentives /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grant, Ruth W. (Ruth Weissbourd), 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political psychology.
Political ethics.
Motivation (Psychology)
Incentive (Psychology)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Ethics.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Morale politique.
Psychologie politique.
Motivation (Psychologie)
Stimulants (Psychologie)
Motivation
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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