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

Author(s): Samuel Bowles

Words & Ideas

Why policies and business practices that ignore the moral side of human nature often fail.


Product Information

Samuel Bowles directs the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute and is the author of Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution; A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution (with Herbert Gintis);andThe New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution.

General Fields

  • : 9780300230512
  • : Yale University Press
  • : Yale University Press
  • : 0.7
  • : 08 August 2017
  • : 0.75000mm X 5.25000mm X 8.00000mm
  • : United States
  • : 17 March 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Samuel Bowles
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 658
  • : 288
  • : 18 b-w illus.