期刊名称：Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
印刷版ISSN：1876-9098
出版年度：2014
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：185-188
出版社：Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
摘要：Managers, politicians, and scientists frequently use the term 'incentive' in their explanations of human action. At the same time, individuals in the public and private sectors are now governed with the help of incentives: a bonus is an incentive for the banker to perform in an optimal way; the introduction of market forces in healthcare is an incentive for healthcare providers to use tax payers' money efficiently; the public availability of information about school performance is an incentive for school administrators and teachers to work hard. In this dissertation, I study the incentive from a theoretical and normative perspective inspired by the work of the French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. To challenge the current self-evidence of the incentive as an explanatory term and instrument of power, I focus on the contingency that permeates the transformations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century thoughts about and uses of the carrot and the stick.
