Incentivology : the forces that explain tremendous success and spectacular failure
Jason MurphyLondon : Hardie Grant Books, 2019
x, 262 pages ; 24 cm
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- Rewards. Punishments. Prices. The Nobel Prize. Candy Crush. Incentives take more forms than you might expect and they can be hard to spot, but theyshapeour lives inways that werarely examine. Some incentives are obvious, like for example, publicly commit
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- Part 1. Incentives in theory
- Chapter 1. The power of incentives
- Chapter 2. A perverse inclination
- Chapter 3. Unintentional
- Chapter 4. Missing incentives
- Chapter 5. Your brain on incentives
- Interlude: a mannish jape
- Part 2. Chapter 6. Less than a loaf of bread
- Chapter 7. Crazy bargains (and crazy luxury)
- Chapter 8. Only the fittest survive
- Interlude: dog
- Chapter 9. Self-perpetuating incentives
- Chapter 10. Corruption and rot
- Chapter 11. Justice
- Chapter 12. Injustice, armour and fire
- Interlude: the hunger games
- Chapter 13. Climate change
- Chapter 14. Ostrom
- Conclusion : the ball is still in the air.
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- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Hardie Grant Books
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- 9781743794999 (paperback)
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- 2019394048
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