The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

(Part of the Castle Lecture Series Series)

by Samuel Bowles

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

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300163800

ISBN13:9780300163803

Release Date:May 2016

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"

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