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An informal faculty committee, the Teaching Incentives Study Group, has been studying the relationship between teaching quality and various incentives since the fall of 1974, Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy and the group's organizer, said yesterday.
"We feel that an important part of the determinants on how well people teach are the incentives involved, whether pay, promotion, fame or fun," Schelling said. "The study group is looking at how different rewards and punishments influence the style, quantity and quality of teaching."
"We don't know if we'll do anything dramatic," Schelling replied when asked whether the group would submit a formal report on its findings.
"We're a self-selected group of self-interested people," Schelling added. "Whether or in what way we communicate the results to others depends on the nature of the results themselves."
This is the chilling conclusion of a symposium in the November issue of Harvard Magazine. In it, five arms-control experts judge that some nuclear wars are likely to occur before this century's end. The five are: Schelling, a professor of political economy; Biochemist Paul Doty, head of...