Strings Attached Untangling the Ethics of Incentives

Name: Strings Attached Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
Price: 19.92 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780691161020

ISBN-10: 069116102X

ISBN-13: 9780691161020

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ruth W. Grant

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $19.92

Marketplace

3 new & used from $24.90

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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,…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/2/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.61" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682