TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowles,Samuel
TI  - The moral economy: why good incentives are no substitute for good citizens 
T2  - The castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics
SN  - 9780300163803
U1  - 330 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Haven, London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Economics
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Law and economics
KW  - Values
KW  - Incentives in industry
N1  - 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; The problem with homo economicus --; A constitution for knaves --; Moral sentiments and material interests --; Incentives as information --; A liberal civic culture --; The legislator's dilemma --; A mandate for Aristotle's legislator
N2  - 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
ER  -