The moral economy : why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens /

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...

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Main Author: Bowles, Samuel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016
Series:Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central