New Book

Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives

Princeton University Press (2011)

Recently featured in the Financial Times, in Christopher Caldwell’s “Not a reward; rather an exercise of power.”

“This remarkable book asks some deceptively simple questions: With what norms should we judge the use of incentives? How can we compare incentives to coercion and persuasion? With characteristically lucid prose and a productive blend of theory and case studies, Ruth Grant illuminates an often neglected arena of inquiry. At a time when philosophers advocate ‘libertarian paternalism’ as an alternative to coercion and governments deploy ‘conditional cash transfers’ as instruments of social policy, Grant’s reflections could hardly be more relevant.”

William Galston

The Brookings Institution

 

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