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

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  • Sabina Alkire
  • Séverine Deneulin

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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.

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  • Sabina Alkire & Séverine Deneulin, 2000. "Individual Motivation, Its Nature, Determinants and Consequences for within group Behaviour," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2000-184, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2000-184
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    • C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
    • C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior

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