What Motivates Us

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Although economists model human action in the aggregate as if the individuals involved were, in some narrow sense, rational, actual individuals are motivated by seemingly non-economic concerns, Dan Pink says:

(Hat tip to Cameron Schaefer.)

Comments

  1. Kalim Kassam says:

    “This weird socialist conspiracy… the notoriously left-wing socialist group that financed the research: The Federal Reserve Bank”. Yup, sounds about right.

    Oh wait — he was being sarcastic?

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