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Markets in everything - Paretian liberal edition
Male workers who vow to stay away from prostitutes after year-end celebrations in South Korea are to be rewarded.
The Ministry for Gender Equality is offering cash to companies whose male employees pledge not to pay for sex after office parties.
Men are being urged to register on the ministry's website. The companies with most pledges will receive a reward.
Note that the vow is awarded, not the abstinence. The pointer is from Claudio Shikida, Brazilian economist and blogger.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 26, 2006 at 03:08 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink
Comments
It seems that the vow is not being rewarded either -- the company is being rewarded for having its employees give the vow.
Posted by: neil at Dec 26, 2006 4:03:52 PM
Perverse incentives in everything, now they'll just rape rather than pay the sex worker.
Posted by: scott clark at Dec 26, 2006 4:25:41 PM
There is some connection with social choice theory (the "impossibility of a Paretian liberal" argument of Prof.Sen).If everybody decide not to pay for sex after work,that goes against liberalism.Whether to have paid sex after work has to be decided by the individual worker himself and not by the society like the selection of the colour that has to be painted in your bedroom or the decision to sleep on your belly or back.
Posted by: GVV at Dec 26, 2006 7:03:31 PM
Just for the well-being of people and for good
social welfare they are offering reward to
the male people.
Posted by: umesh patil at Dec 27, 2006 1:42:22 AM
Wouldn't it have been easier to just pay the women to not work that night?
Posted by: Russ R at Dec 27, 2006 12:04:08 PM
Those heartless bastards are trying to throw prostitutes into the street!
- Josh
Posted by: Wild Pegasus at Dec 27, 2006 5:05:44 PM
There is some connection with social choice theory (the "impossibility of a Paretian liberal" argument of Prof.Sen).
I thought so too, because if both Cowen's Paretial liberal reference and Sen's "argument" make no sense.
If everybody decide not to pay for sex after work,that goes against liberalism.
No, it doesn't. That's a personal decision, not a rights allocation.
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