This article argues that the information economy is split in two. On the one hand, there is the traditional capitalist economy that works with monetary incentives. This economy still handles the main part of material production: the production of cars, shoes, computer chips, and the transportation and maintenance of these goods. But immaterial productionthe production of the ideas, innovations,...

i ABSTRACT As Phase I of a three-phase Health Financing and Sustainability project, this paper reviews the relevant concepts and literature and presents the preliminary field work design for research regarding provider incentives and productive efficiency in government health services. In addition to providing a basic conceptual framework of the issues, the authors present empirical and anecdot...

There is no evidence comparing head-to-head the effects of monetary incentives to act and to abstain from acting on behaviour. We present an experiment, conducted between June and September 2012, that directly compares the effects of those two different monetary incentive schemes on eating behaviour: we evaluate incentives to eat against incentives not to eat. A large number of participants (n ...

Real-effort tasks are used frequently in economics experiments for various purposes. One example is to study the behavior of agents in contests. In this paper, we study the effort choices of subjects in real-effort tasks within a contest environment. Subjects participate in pairs in a tournament with two equal prizes. Despite the absence of monetary incentives, we find that subjects exert a pos...

OBJECTIVE To explore the strategies used to improve retention in primary care randomised trials. DESIGN Qualitative in-depth interviews and thematic analysis. PARTICIPANTS 29 UK primary care chief and principal investigators, trial managers and research nurses. METHODS In-depth face-to-face interviews. RESULTS Primary care researchers use incentive and communication strategies to improv...

MONETARY INCENTIVES ARE INCREASINGLY used to help motivate survey participation. Research Ethics Committees have begun to ask whether, and under what conditions, the use of monetary incentives to induce participation might be coercive. The article reports research from an online vignette-based study bearing on this question, concluding that at present the evidence suggests that larger incentive...

Why do monetary unions fail? Answers to this question from a material-based approach tend to point to a breakdown in elite political support, especially when actors have material incentives to ‘cheat’ on their multilateral commitments rather than cooperate to overcome the collective action problem that a monetary union entails. Recent ideational approaches have focused on the role of shared eco...