The moral economy: why good incentives a
β Samuel Bowles
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2016
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The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens
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- Yale University Press
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- 2016
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- English
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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 manβthe amoral and self-interested Homo economicusβdetermine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding βno.β Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may βcrowd outβ ethical and generous motives and thus backfire.
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But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles shows that crowding out occurs when the message conveyed by fines and rewards is that self-interest is expected, that the employer thinks the workforce is lazy, or that the citizen cannot otherwise be trusted to contribute to the public good. Using historical and recent case studies as well as behavioral experiments, Bowles shows how well-designed incentives can crowd in the civic motives on which good governance depends.
Should the idea of economic manβthe amoral and self-interested Homo economicusβdetermine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding βno.β Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may βcrowd outβ ethical and generous motives and thus backfire.
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But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles shows that crowding out occurs when the message conveyed by fines and rewards is that self-interest is expected, that the employer thinks the workforce is lazy, or that the citizen cannot otherwise be trusted to contribute to the public good. Using historical and recent case studies as well as behavioral experiments, Bowles shows how well-designed incentives can crowd in the civic motives on which good governance depends.
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