Does Studying Economics Inhibit Cooperation?
Robert H. FrankGoldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy, Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and Professor of Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkThomas GilovichAssociate Professors of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New YorkDennis T. ReganAssociate Professors of Psychology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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In this paper we investigate whether exposure to the self-interest model commonly used in economics alters the extent to which people behave in self-interested ways. First, we report the results of several empirical studies—some our own, some by others—that suggest economists behave in more self-interested ways. By itself, this evidence does not demonstrate that exposure to the self-interest model causes more self-interested behavior, since it may be that economists were simply more self-interested to begin with, and this difference was one reason they chose to study economics. Second, we present preliminary evidence that exposure to the self-interest model does in fact encourage self-interested behavior.
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