Carrot and stick

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The phrase " carrots and sticks " is a metaphor for the use of combinations of rewards and punishments to encourage desired behavior. This is based on the idea that a train driver can activate a reluctant horse by hanging carrots in front of him and hitting him in the back with a stick. This idea sometimes appears as a metaphor for the realist concept of 'hard power'. The carrot may be a promise of economic aid from one country to another, it may be a threat of military action.

When incentives are given only by displaying gifts (usually unattainable), this is known simply as "hanging carrots". The idea is that the carrot movement (depending on the rope) creates an illusion of ability, and makes the subject chase after it.

"And" can be replaced with "or" ("carrot or stick") to suggest a choice between reward or punishment as a means to change behavior. There is a debate that another idiom, "Carrots on a stick", existed separately and before the idiom of "carrots and sticks", which probably originated as an idea in a letter written by Winston Churchill dated July 6, 1938, uses a metaphor for reward-punishment combinations: Thus, by every device from the baton to the carrot, a skinny Austrian donkey was made to pull the Nazis into a perpetual hill. "

The earliest quote from this expression was recorded by Additional to the Oxford English Dictionary is for The Economist magazine in the December 11, 1948, issue. The previous use of the expression was published in 1947 and 1948 in Australian newspaper comments that address the need to stimulate productivity after World War II. The American example was previously published in February 1948 in the daily newspaper article Daily of the Russian economy.

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An example of using this policy was Stalin's control of Eastern Europe during the Cold War period. He applied them among the Soviet Sphere of Influence countries to have tighter control on them. This policy is also used by the president of the United States and NATO.

Carrot on a stick is a similar, but separate, idiom. This is the original form of a metaphor that has been broken into the form above. This refers to a policy of offering rewards to make progress toward benchmarks or goals but not always delivering. The original metaphor refers to a boy sitting on a cart drawn by a donkey. The boy holds a long stick tied to a carrot, and he hangs the carrot in front of the donkey but just out of his reach. As the donkey moves forward to pick up the carrots, he pulls the train - and the boy - so that the carrots are always out of reach as the train moves forward.

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See also

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References

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External links

• Abstract ekonpapers for experiments using the model "Carrots or Sticks: Gifts, Punishments, and Cooperation"

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