Making Sense of Incentives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Sense of Incentives write by Timothy J. Bartik. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Making Sense of Incentives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bartik provides a clear and concise overview of how state and local governments employ economic development incentives in order to lure companies to set up shop—and provide new jobs—in needy local labor markets. He shows that many such incentive offers are wasteful and he provides guidance, based on decades of research, on how to improve these programs.
Incentives
Incentives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Incentives write by Donald E. Campbell. This book was released on 2018-02-22. Incentives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines incentives at work to see how and how well coordination is achieved by motivating individual decision makers.
Incentives to Pander
Incentives to Pander - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Incentives to Pander write by Nathan M. Jensen. This book was released on 2018-03-15. Incentives to Pander available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and distortionary. Despite this evidence, politicians still choose to use these policies to claim credit for attracting investment. Thus, while fiscal incentives are economically inefficient, they pose an effective pandering strategy for politicians. Using original surveys of voters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as data on incentive use by politicians in the US, Vietnam and Russia, this book provides compelling evidence for the use of fiscal incentives for political gain and shows how such pandering appears to be associated with growing economic inequality. As national and subnational governments surrender valuable tax revenue to attract businesses in the vain hope of long-term economic growth, they are left with fiscal shortfalls that have been filled through regressive sales taxes, police fines and penalties, and cuts to public education.
Innovation and Incentives
Innovation and Incentives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Innovation and Incentives write by Suzanne Scotchmer. This book was released on 2004. Innovation and Incentives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The economics of intellectual property and R&D incentives explained in a balanced, accessible mixture of institutional details and theory.
Strings Attached
Strings Attached - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strings Attached write by Ruth W. Grant. This book was released on 2012. Strings Attached available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The legitimate and illegitimate use of incentives in society today 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 rather than as a form of exchange, many ethical questions arise: How do incentives affect character and institutional culture? Can incentives be manipulative or exploitative, even if people are free to refuse them? What are the responsibilities of the powerful in using incentives? Ruth Grant shows that, like all other forms of power, incentives can be subject to abuse, and she identifies their legitimate and illegitimate uses. Grant offers a history of the growth of incentives in early twentieth-century America, identifies standards for judging incentives, and examines incentives in four areas—plea bargaining, recruiting medical research subjects, International Monetary Fund loan conditions, and motivating students. In every case, the analysis of incentives in terms of power yields strikingly different and more complex judgments than an analysis that views incentives as trades, in which the desired behavior is freely exchanged for the incentives offered. Challenging the role and function of incentives in a democracy, Strings Attached questions whether the penchant for constant incentivizing undermines active, autonomous citizenship. Readers of this book are sure to view the ethics of incentives in a new light.
