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Recenzja książki The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens Samuela Bowlesa
Review of the book The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens by Samuel Bowles

Author(s): Łukasz Stankiewicz
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Economy, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: kooperacja; bodźce ekonomiczne; moralność; cooperation; economic incentives; morality

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this textis to present the main conclusions of Samuel Bowles’ book The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens. The book sums up author’s engagement with the interdisciplinary field of research on human cooperation. The aim of the bookis to provide an account of interactions between the economic and moral incentives guiding humanaction. Author hopes that it will allow for creation of policy tools, superior to those provided by the rational choice paradigm.

  • Issue Year: 9/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 155-161
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish