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The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens (Castle Lectures Series)
The Moral Economy Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens - Castle Lectures Series
Author: Samuel Bowles
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 i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300163803
ISBN-10: 0300163800
Publication Date: 5/24/2016
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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