Self Interest, Altruism, Incentives, and Agency Theory
Preprint
- 1 January 1994
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Many people are suspicious of self-interest and incentives and oppose motivating humans through incentives. I analyze the meaning of incentives in the logic ofKeywords
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