00000nam a22000007i 4500 UP-1685675941131475843 Buklod 20240219143353.0 m |o d | ta 240219s2016 ctu a b 001 0 eng d 9780300230512 (paperback: alk. paper) 18849902 Econ-34587 DLC DECON rda eng HB 72 B62 2017 Bowles, Samuel author. The moral economy why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens Samuel Bowles. Why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens ©2016 New Haven Yale University Press [2016] xvi, 272 pages illustrations 22 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier The castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics Parts of this book were given as the Castle Lectures in Yale's Program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, delivered by Samuel Bowles at Yale University in 2010. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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 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. Law and economics. Economics Moral and ethical aspects. Book FO UPD DECON HB 72 B62 2017 Book