Individual Motivation, Its Nature, Determinants and Consequences for within group Behaviour

Sabina Alkire and Séverine Deneulin

No wp-2000-184, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The paper deals with evaluating the adequacy of the assumption that in economic transactions people are self-interested insofar as they are motivated solely by the concern of maximizing their own utility, and in particular with assessing how this assumption affects within-group behaviour. Policy and incentive structures based on the assumption of exogenous and self-interest motivation can undermine other sources of motivation and have negative effects both on co-operative behaviour and also on economic efficiency.

Keywords: Sociology of economics; Group decision making; Social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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