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Extrinsic incentives play a key role in motivating behavior. However, conflicting findings have been observed with … respect to the effectiveness of various extrinsic incentives (e.g., a cash reward vs. a donation to charity) in motivation. We … affective assessment in valuation, we reconcile several conundrums including when donation incentives that serve the greater …
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Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...
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Corruption is a term used by criminology, but the new Hungarian Criminal Code included it as a concept of substantial … criminal law since it bribery and the related criminal acts are discussed under the title of crimes of corruption.In case of …
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Most economic models are based on the self-interest hypothesis that assumes that all people are exclusively motivated by their material self-interest. In recent years experimental economists have gathered overwhelming evidence that systematically refutes the self-interest hypothesis and suggests...
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This paper discusses three alternative assumptions concerning household preferences (altruism, self-interest, and a … presents data on the strength of bequest motives, stated bequest motives, and bequest division plans from a new international …
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considered as existing in the political and economic "world". Here we refer to corruption as well as to the role of money as a … positional good. We also discuss such behaviour in the academic world, in which money plays a role as well as reputation. Thus …
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I provide a formal explanation of the relationship between the virtues of prudence, justice, and benevolence described by Adam Smith in the Theory of moral sentiments and connect these with the themes Smith subsequently discusses in the Wealth of nations. I contend that the other-regarding...
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