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Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives (9780691151601): Ruth W. Grant: Books. Strings Attached is a thoughtful . . . look at the encroaching power of the market and its mechanisms in a range of human activity. What does it mean to see life as a series of transactions? The question is relevant far beyond the book's specific samples. -- Nancy F. Koehn, New York TimesWe're used to relying on incentives. Academics face an incentive to publish papers, hedge fund managers have incentives to earn money for their clients, and if we don't pay our taxes we face the threat of sanctions, fines, and jail. The contribution of Ruth W. Grant in Strings Attached is to question the morality of these arrangements and their ubiquity in our lives. -- Tyler Cowen, ScienceIncreasingly, authorities mistake freedom for choice, Prof. Grant believes. They manipulate, demean and corrupt in the name of a 'freedom' that is no freedom at all. Her ideas may or may not result in better public policy. But they ought to give us a richer idea of freedom. -- Christopher Caldwell, Financial TimesIn a very interesting, helpful new book, Strings Attached, author Ruth W. Grant deals with incentives in all kinds of situations. -- Psychology TodayIn Strings Attached, Ruth W. Grant examines the history, language, and ethics of incentives, both in the workplace and the realm of public policy. Grant, a professor at Duke, considers incentives to be a form of power, right alongside force and persuasion as methods people can use to get someone else to do what they want. -- Biz Ed Magazine
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