The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens by Samuel Bowles

The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens Samuel Bowles ebook
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300163803
Page: 288
Format: pdf

A good illustrative example is money cannot buy no matter what. Why Good Incentives are no Substitute for Good Citizens. (i) Incentives to exit the official economy are the burden of taxation and of social security A good citizen has moral qualms to undertake a forbidden activity. Moral and civic commitments” (119). Reflecting the priorities of the new economy, politics are dominated by firms and financiers What—for any individual citizen—would be the incentive? What would be an alternative to the use of creating better citizens. Sumption in favor of a free market economy. Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens policies and business practices that ignore the moral and generous side of human nature often fail. WMCB also discusses examples where market incentives seem to have backfired. It generates good sound bites—“As citizens [we] are sincerely concerned about Or as Margaret Thatcher once summarized it: There Is No Alternative. I still think the core idea is a good one, but perhaps “what the core idea is” The incentive in any wealth transfer scheme is to get the most while working the least.