Incentives, Offers, and Community

Frye, Harrison

doi:10.1017/s0266267117000050

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“…The interactions between these two streams of literature of psychologists and economists are reviewed in Festré and Garrouste (2015). Benabou andTirole (2003, 2006) developed an "agency model" and further experimental tests of the crowding-out hypothesis have been surveyed by Bowles and Polania-Reyes (2012), and the once unanimous enthusiasm for incentives and performance-related pay, still displayed in standard economics textbooks, is, at last, making some room for circumstantiated criticism (see Ellingsen and Johannesson, 2007;Gneezy et al, 2011;Frye, 2017). These strands of literature are relevant to our paper in as much as both prizes and incentives are forms of extrinsic rewards that may interact with intrinsic ones and thus create crowding-out or crowding-in effects.…”

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The Pied Piper: Prizes, Incentives, and Motivation Crowding-in

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In mainstream business and economics, prizes such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom are understood as special types of incentives, with the peculiar features of being awarded in public, and of having largely symbolic value. Informed by both historical considerations and philosophical instances, our study defines fundamental theoretical differences between incentives and prizes. The conceptual factors highlighted by our analytical framework are then tested through a laboratory experiment. The experimental exercise aims to analyze how prizes and incentives impact actual individuals' behavior differently. Our results show that both incentives (monetary and contingent) and prizes (non-monetary and discretional rewards) boost motivation to perform if awarded publicly, but only prizes crowd-in motivation promoting virtuous attitude.

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Section: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivationmentioning

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“…In a recent critique of Cohen's views, Frye has argued that Cohen's community critique of incentives is wrongheaded because incentives can be expressions of community rather than a detriment to it (Frye 2017). Thereby, some economic inequalities, which do not reflect luck egalitarian distributive justice because they reward the talented, are to be considered expressions of a Cohenian community.…”

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Markets, Distributive Justice and Community: The Egalitarian Ethos of G. A. Cohen

Albertsen

2018

Political Research Quarterly

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Market, Equality and Community: The egalitarian ethos of G.A. Cohen While markets are widely lauded as efficient and attractive allocation mechanisms, controversy about their moral limits remain. The writings of G.A. Cohen provide an important contribution to this debate. Cohen offers two critiques of the market. One is a distributive critique, which maintains that markets fails in eliminating the influence of differential luck on people's lives. The other is a community critique, maintaining that market relations fall short of a community of mutual caring. These critiques differ in important ways from critiques developed by Satz and Sandel and suggest a need to assess markets beyond desperate exchanges and the adverse effects of incentives. Cohen's work also points to how we can realize distributive justice and community. His solution utilizes the supply and demand mechanism of the market as a signalling device rather than an allocation mechanism. High wages signal the importance of a specific job, but wage differences are subsequently taxed away. This peculiar market arrangement relies on moral rather than economic incentives and only works if it is combined with a communitarian ethos. This ethos solution is evaluated in light of recent criticisms that it would compromise the freedom to pursue personal projects, that incentives may express community and that the competition it utilizes mitigates against community. In the end, these critiques are not deemed persuasive.

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Why Not Community? An Exploration of the Value of Community in Cohen's Socialism

Nielsen

Albertsen

2021

Res Publica

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The work of prominent analytical Marxist, G.A. Cohen, offers a vision of socialism with distributive justice and community at its core. While Cohen's views on distributive justice have been hugely influential, much less has been said about community. This article argues that community plays three distinct roles in Cohen's socialism. One is as an independent value, the second is as a necessary adjacent counterpart to justice, which serves both to restrict and facilitate distributive equality, and the third is as a critique of the liberal contractualist view of humanity. We argue that these are distinct and valuable elements in Cohen's thought, and each must be recognized to understand the range and implications of Cohen's socialism.It is still an unsettled and highly debated question within political philosophy exactly how we are to understand socialism. Socialism can be understood, for example, as a property relation, distribution of power in society, or as an altered, non-exploitative relation between producer and surplus value. Alternatively, perhaps, socialism is Marx's "realm of freedom"

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Incentives, Offers, and Community

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

The Pied Piper: Prizes, Incentives, and Motivation Crowding-in

The Pied Piper: Prizes, Incentives, and Motivation Crowding-in

Markets, Distributive Justice and Community: The Egalitarian Ethos of G. A. Cohen

Why Not Community? An Exploration of the Value of Community in Cohen's Socialism

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