{"product_id":"strings-attached-ruth-w-grant-9780691161020","title":"Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe legitimate and illegitimate use of incentives in society today\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncentives 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 \u003ci\u003eStrings Attached\u003c\/i\u003e 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, incentives can be subject to abuse, and she identifies their legitimate and illegitimate uses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrant offers a history of the growth of incentives in early twentieth-century America, identifies standards for judging incentives, and examines incentives in four areas--plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, International Monetary Fund loan conditions, and motivating students. In every case, the analysis of incentives in terms of power yields strikingly different and more complex judgments than an analysis that views incentives as trades, in which the desired behavior is freely exchanged for the incentives offered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChallenging the role and function of incentives in a democracy, \u003ci\u003eStrings Attached\u003c\/i\u003e questions whether the penchant for constant incentivizing undermines active, autonomous citizenship. Readers of this book are sure to view the ethics of incentives in a new light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth W. Grant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 069116102X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691161020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.19h x 6.29w x 0.56d","brand":"Ruth W. Grant","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46795332419839,"sku":"9780691161020","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c97ec898-df8a-4f41-b524-6a885f2b935b.jpg?v=1744947279","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/strings-attached-ruth-w-grant-9780691161020","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}