是著名微觀理論經濟學家拉奉特以及其學生martimort的合寫的理論著作，其影響力可想而知。經濟學和激勵的關系密切，如激勵努力工作、激勵高質量產品、激勵努力學習、激勵投資和激勵儲蓄。盡管兩百多年前在他的佃農合同分析中充分肯定了這一點，但只有在近些年這個理論在經濟思想中才占據了核心地位。書中，jean-jacques laffont和david martimort對激勵理論的表述是目前最透徹的和最容易學習的。本理論的核心是對現代管理就如同對經濟理論一樣至關重要的簡單問題：是什麼讓人們在一個經濟和商業環境中會有特殊的表現？為了尋找答案，書中給出了特定的環境下能夠確保對經濟機構的良好激勵的方法論工具。

ForewordIntroductionl Incentives in Economic Thought 1.1 Adam Smith and Incentive Contracts in Agriculture 1.2 Chester Barlmrd and Incentives in Management 1.3 Hume, Wicksell, Groves: Tile Free-Rider Problem 1.4 Borda, Bowen, Vickrey: Incentives in Voting 1.5 Leon Walras and the Regulation of Natural Monopolies 1.6 Knight, Arrow, Pauly: Incentives in Insurance 1.7 Sidgwick, Vickrey, Mirrlees: Redistribution and Incentives 1.8 Dupuit, Edgeworth, Pigou: Price Discrimination 1.9 Incentives in Planned Economies 1.10 Leonid Hurwicz and Mechanism Design 1.11 Auctions2 The Rent Extraction-Efficiency Trade-Off 2.1 The Basic Model 2.2 The Complete Information Optimal Contract 2.3 Incentive Feasible Menu of Contracts 2.4 Information Rents 2.5 The Optimization Program of the Principal 2.6 The Rent Extraction-Efficiency Trade-Off 2.7 The Theory of the Firm Under Asymmetric Information 2.8 Asymmetric Information and Marginal Cost Pricing 2.9 Tile Revelation Principle 2.10 A More General Utility Function for the Agent 2.11 Ex Ante versus Ex Post Participation Constraints 2.12 Commitment 2.13 Stochastic Mechanisms, 2.14 Informative Signals to Improve Contracting, 2.15 Contract Theory at Work Appendix3 Incentive and Participation Constraints with Adverse Selection 3.1 More than Two Types 3.2 Multidimensional Asymmetric Information 3.3 Type-Dependent Participation Constraint and Countervailing IncentiTces 3.4 Random Participation Constraint 3,5 Limited Liability 3,6 Audit Mechanisms and Costly State Verification 3.7 Redistributive Concerns and the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off Appendices4 Moral Hazard: The Basic Trade-Offs 4.1 Tile Model 4.2 Risk Neutrality and First-Best hnplementation 4.3 The Trade-Off Between Limited Liability Rent Extraction and Efficiency 4.4 Tile Trade-Off Between Insurance and Efficiency 4.5 More than Two Levels of Performance 4.6 Informative Signals to Improve Contracting 4.7 Moral Hazard and the Theory of the Finn 4.8 Contract Theory at Work 4.9 Commitment Under Moral Hazard. Appendices5 Incentive and Participation Constraints with Moral Hazard. 5.1 More than Two Levels of Effort 5.2 The Multitask Incentive Problem 5.3 Nonseparability of the Utility Function 5.4 Redistribution and Moral Hazard Appendices6 Nonverifiability 6.1 No Contract at Date 0 and Ex Post Bargaining 6.2 Incentive Compatible Contract 6.3 Nash Implementation 6.4 Subgame-Perfect Implementation 6.5 Risk Aversion 6.6 Concluding Remarks7 Mixed Models 7.1 Adverse Selection Followed by Moral Hazard 7.2 Moral Hazard Followed by Adverse Selection 7.3 Moral Hazard Followed by Nonverifiability8 Dynamics under Full Commitment 8.1 Repeated Adverse Selection b.2 Repeated Moral Hazard 8.3 Constraints on Transfers: The Role of hnplicit Incentives9 Limits and Extensions 9.1 Informed Principal. 9.2 Limits to Enforcement 9.3 Dynamics and Limited Commitment 9.4 The Hold-Up Problem 9.5 Limits to the Complexity of Contracts 9.6 Limits in the Action Space 9.7 Limits to Rational Behavior 9.8 Endogenous Information StructuresReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index