Campbell, Donald E

Incentives : motivation and the economics of information / Donald E Campbell - 2nd ed - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006 - xii, 591p, 25cm.

This book examines the incentives at work in a wide range of institutions to see how and how well coordination is achieved by informing and motivating individual decision makers. The book examines the performance of agents hired to carry out specific tasks, from taxi drivers to CEOs. It investigates the performance of institutions, from voting schemes to kidney transplants, to see if they enhance general well being. The book examines a broad range of market transactions, from auctions to labor markets, to the entire economy

0521539749


Social choice--Mathematical models

302.13 / CAM