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Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
Ruth W. Grant
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Description for Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
Hardback. 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. This title shows that, like all other forms of power, incentives can be subject to abuse. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 line illus. BIC Classification: HPQ; KCK; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 456.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691151601
SKU
V9780691151601
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About Ruth W. Grant
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".
Reviews for Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "Strings Attached is a thoughtful ... look at the encroaching power of the market and its mechanisms in a range of human activity. What does it mean to see life as a series of transactions? The question is relevant far beyond the book's specific examples."
Nancy F. Koehn, New York Times "We're used ... Read more
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