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What's important for you in life? A general and pluralistic model of economic agents’ motivation

Zibell, Laurent - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 40 (2011) 5, pp. 503-515

This article refines the theory of economic agents’ motivations beyond the alternative between egoistic self-interest and a generic altruism. It addresses the potential weakness of ‘altruism’ theories that the number of ‘others’ claiming empathy and care is potentially infinite. It...

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Individual Motivation, its Nature, Determinants and Consequences for Within Group Behavior

Alkire, Sabina; Deneulin, Séverine - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1998

-interested motivation can undermine other sources of motivation and have negative effects both on cooperative behavior and also on economic … challenges the position that homo œconomicus contains an adequate characterization of human motivation for cooperative within …, intrinsic motivation and social norms. It argues that motivations are complex and multiple; a single assumption of utility …

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Is Individual Behavior Oriented to Self-interest, Other-interest or both? Empirical Evidence from a Case Study of Social Capital

Zhang, Zhenyu; Lynne, Gary D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2006

While social capital is becoming mainstreamed in social science, much remains to be done to better understand its' nature. This is especially true for "What motivates the investment in social capital, and what affects the level of social capital?" An earlier paper by Robison, Schmid and Siles (...

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Evolutionary economics and household behavior

Horioka, Charles Yuji - In: Philippine Review of Economics 51 (2014) 2, pp. 67-82

This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of household behavior. It shows that the goal of evolutionary economics is to improve upon neoclassical economics by incorporating more realistic and empirically grounded...

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Empathy Conditioned Conservation: "Walking-in-the-Shoes-of-Others" as a Conservation Farmer

Sheeder, Robert; Lynne, Gary D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009

Since the destruction and despair caused by the dust bowl of the 1930’s, Americans and their government have taken a keen interest in natural resource conservation policy on agricultural land. The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 was the first farm bill to include...

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Profits, Layoffs, and Priorities

Arce, Daniel; Li, Sherry - In: Journal of Business Ethics 101 (2011) 1, pp. 49-60

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La méthodologie économique du déductivisme millien au néo-positivisme

Cozic, Mikaël - In: Revue d'économie politique 124 (2014) 1, pp. 23-73

The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the main issues and of the most important trends in economic methodology. It is organized around the generalized Mill?s problem : does economics obey the methodological standards of empirical science ? The study is divided in two parts. The first...

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Social norms or social preferences?

Binmore, Ken - In: Mind and Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and … 9 (2010) 2, pp. 139-157

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The economic psychology of incentives: an international study of top managers

Pepper, Alexander; Gore, Julie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The world-wide inflation in executive compensation in recent years has been accompanied by an increase in the prevalence of long-term incentives. This article demonstrates how the subjectively perceived value of long-term incentives is affected by risk aversion, uncertainty aversion, and time...

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The economic psychology of incentives: An international study of top managers

Pepper, Alexander; Gore, Julie - In: Journal of World Business 49 (2014) 3, pp. 350-361

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