The Devil Is in the Details: Implications of Samuel Bowles’s The Moral Economy for Economics and Policy Research
评论鲍尔斯的《道德经济》，指出激励不仅会挤出内在动机，还会侵蚀市场所需的伦理道德规范，并建议政策应结合激励与道德信息，研究地方制度和社会背景。
All economists should buy and read The Moral Economy by Samuel Bowles. The book challenges basic premises of economic theory and questions policies based on monetary incentives. Incentives not only crowd out intrinsic motivations, they erode the ethical and moral codes necessary for the workings of markets. Bowles boldly suggests that successful policies must combine incentives and moral messages, exploiting complementarities between the two. This essay argues that to achieve this objective, economists must study the local institutions and social context and engage untraditional data to uncover the interplay of incentives and identity.