Strings Attached (eBook)

Untangling the Ethics of Incentives

Ruth W. Grant (Autor)

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2011
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3974-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Ruth W. Grant is professor of political science and philosophy and a senior fellow of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. She is the author of John Locke's Liberalism and Hypocrisy and Integrity.

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The legitimate and illegitimate use of incentives in society todayIncentives 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 demonstrates that when incentives are viewed as a kind of power rather than as a form of exchange, many ethical questions arise: How do incentives affect character and institutional culture? Can incentives be manipulative or exploitative, even if people are free to refuse them? What are the responsibilities of the powerful in using incentives? Ruth Grant shows that, like all other forms of power, incentives can be subject to abuse, and she identifies their legitimate and illegitimate uses.Grant offers a history of the growth of incentives in early twentieth-century America, identifies standards for judging incentives, and examines incentives in four areas-plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, International Monetary Fund loan conditions, and motivating students. In every case, the analysis of incentives in terms of power yields strikingly different and more complex judgments than an analysis that views incentives as trades, in which the desired behavior is freely exchanged for the incentives offered.Challenging the role and function of incentives in a democracy, Strings Attached questions whether the penchant for constant incentivizing undermines active, autonomous citizenship. Readers of this book are sure to view the ethics of incentives in a new light.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2011
• Zusatzinfo: 2 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
• Schlagworte: abuse of power • Accountability • Agency (philosophy) • attempt • Autonomy • behavioral pedagogy • Behaviorism • Belmont Report • B. F. Skinner • blackmail • bribery • Calculation • Cambridge University Press • Change • children • Choice • Coercion • Compensation • Competition • conditionality • consent • Consideration • Controversy • Cost–benefit analysis • courtship • David Soskice • debt • Decision-Making • Declaration of Helsinki • Deliberation • Democracy • Democratic Politics • disadvantage • Disincentives • distrust • Duke University • Economic Growth • economic problem • Economics • Effectiveness • Employment • Engineering • ethical incentives • ethics • Exchange • Experiment • Explanation • Exploitation • Fraud • government policy • Homo economicus • human subject research • Identity Economics • Ideology • Incentive • incentive program • Incentives • Institution • insurance • International Monetary Fund • International Monetary Fund loans • Irrationality • Isaiah Berlin • Jeremy Bentham • John B. Watson • loan policies • Manipulation • Market (economics) • Market Economy • Market Mechanism • medical research subjects • Michael Munger • Modernity • moral responsibility • Motivation • Negotiation • of education • offer • organization • Organizational Culture • paternalism • Payment • Persuasion • philanthropy • Physician • plaintiff • plea bargain • Plea bargaining • Policy • Political Economy • Politics • Power • practical judgment • Princeton University Press • Prosecutor • psychologist • Psychology • Public Good • Public Policy • Purpose • Rational Choice Theory • Rationality • Reinforcement • Requirement • result • Retention Bonus • Rule Of Thumb • Russell Sage Foundation • Samuel Bowles (economist) • Scientific Management • Self-control • Self-Interest • Social Control • social engineering • Social engineering (political science) • Social engineering (security) • Standards • Structural adjustment • student motivation • Suggestion • The Principles of Scientific Management • Thomas Hobbes • Trade • undue influence • Unemployment benefits • unethical incentives • vocabulary • voluntariness • World Economy
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3974-2 / 1400839742
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3974-2 / 9781400839742