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Intrinsic Motivation and the Logic of Collective Action: The Impact of Selective Incentives
Author(s) -
Kyriacou Andreas P.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2010.00722.x
Subject(s) - incentive , intrinsic motivation , collective action , action (physics) , microeconomics , economics , crowding out , public good , positive economics , social psychology , psychology , political science , law , monetary economics , physics , quantum mechanics , politics
A bstract I integrate the notion of intrinsic motivation, applied to economics most notably by Frey (1997), into the logic of individual contributions toward collective goods as analyzed since Olson ([1965] 1971). This illuminates the many and various ways through which the intrinsic motivation to contribute toward such goods can be crowded out by the application of selective incentives. I suggest that the crowding‐out effect increases the cost to society of organizing the provision of collective goods and argue in favor of designing selective incentives that mitigate this effect.