Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives
By Ruth W. Grant (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) 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 … Continued