Intrinsic Motivation and the Logic of Collective Action: The Impact of Selective Incentives

Andreas Kyriacou

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2010, vol. 69, issue 2, 823-839

Abstract: I integrate the notion of intrinsic motivation, applied to economics most notably by Frey (1997), into the logic of individual contributions toward collective goods as analyzed since Olson ([1965] 1971). This illuminates the many and various ways through which the intrinsic motivation to contribute toward such goods can be crowded out by the application of selective incentives. I suggest that the crowding‐out effect increases the cost to society of organizing the provision of collective goods and argue in favor of designing selective incentives that mitigate this effect.

Date: 2010
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