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Strings attached : untangling the ethics of incentives / / Ruth W. Grant



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Autore: Grant Ruth W (Ruth Weissbourd), <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Strings attached : untangling the ethics of incentives / / Ruth W. Grant Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina: 170
Soggetto topico: Incentive (Psychology)
Motivation (Psychology)
Political psychology
Political ethics
Soggetto non controllato: International Monetary Fund loans
International Monetary Fund
accountability
autonomy
behavioral pedagogy
change
children
choice
compensation
democracy
democratic politics
disincentives
ethical incentives
ethics
exchange
exploitation
government policy
incentives
loan policies
manipulation
medical research subjects
motivation
offer
persuasion
plea bargaining
power
practical judgment
purpose
scientific management
social control
social engineering
standards
student motivation
trade
undue influence
unethical incentives
voluntariness
Classificazione: CC 7220
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Strings attached  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-26745-4
9786613267450
1-4008-3974-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825623603321
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