This text provides a wide-ranging discussion of personal movitation that opens out traditional eonomics to provide a more mature view of individuals as being sensitive to private and moral motives as well as market incentives.
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'Bruno Frey provides a stimulating and wide-ranging discussion of personal motivation that opens out traditional economics to provide a more mature view of individuals as being sensitive to private and moral motives as well as market incentives. The basic analysis and the range of applications will be of great interest to anyone with an interest in political economy broadly defined.' -- Alan Hamlin, University of Southampton, UK
'[Bruno Frey] suggests how the working economist or intelligent citizen can take into account what he calls "intrinsic motivation". Still more important, he shows how this can be done without surrendering to the communitarians who would subordinate the individual to the group to which he or she belongs. Mr. Frey emphasizes that his book is not a plea for old-style government intervention. . . Instead he argues that human beings should be trusted more. "Desist from trying to steer humans everywhere and always", he writes. At the very least, however, Mr. Frey's crowding out theory offers some comfort to those who have misgivings about macho managerialism. From now on, they should be able to retain such misgivings without having to overthrow beliefs in markets or the profit motive.' -- Sir Samuel Brittan, The Financial Times
His [Frey's] book is provocative and interesting and likely to yield some further empirical efforts to measure putative crowding-out … -- – L.A. Duhs, Economic Analysis and Policy
'[Bruno Frey] suggests how the working economist or intelligent citizen can take into account what he calls "intrinsic motivation". Still more important, he shows how this can be done without surrendering to the communitarians who would subordinate the individual to the group to which he or she belongs. Mr. Frey emphasizes that his book is not a plea for old-style government intervention. . . Instead he argues that human beings should be trusted more. "Desist from trying to steer humans everywhere and always", he writes. At the very least, however, Mr. Frey's crowding out theory offers some comfort to those who have misgivings about macho managerialism. From now on, they should be able to retain such misgivings without having to overthrow beliefs in markets or the profit motive.' -- Sir Samuel Brittan, The Financial Times
His [Frey's] book is provocative and interesting and likely to yield some further empirical efforts to measure putative crowding-out … -- – L.A. Duhs, Economic Analysis and Policy
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