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  1. Strings attached
    untangling the ethics of incentives
    Author: Grant, Ruth Weissbourd
    Published: ©2011
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Hochschule Landshut, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Bibliothek
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0691151601; 1283267454; 1400839742; 9780691151601; 9781283267458; 9781400839742
    Subjects: Philosophy; Political Science; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Social; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics; Incentive (Psychology); Motivation (Psychology); Political ethics; Political psychology; Philosophie; Wirtschaft; Incentive (Psychology); Motivation (Psychology); Political psychology; Political ethics; Motivation; Anreiz; Ethik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 202 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index

    Why worry about incentives? -- Incentives then and now : the clock and the engineer -- "Incentives talk" : what are incentives anyway? -- Ethical and not so ethical incentives -- Applying standards, making judgments -- Getting down to cases : plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, IMF loan conditions, motivating children to learn -- Beyond voluntariness -- A different kind of conversation

    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 responsibiliti
  2. Strings attached
    untangling the ethics of incentives
    Author: Grant, Ruth W.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    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,... more

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    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 responsibiliti. Why worry about incentives? -- Incentives then and now : the clock and the engineer -- "Incentives talk" : what are incentives anyway? -- Ethical and not so ethical incentives -- Applying standards, making judgments -- Getting down to cases : plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, IMF loan conditions, motivating children to learn -- Beyond voluntariness -- A different kind of conversation

     
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