The Why Axis
内容简介
Based on groundbreaking original research, The Why Axis is a colorful examination of why people do what they do—observed through the lens of incentives that can spur people to achieve.
Uri Gneezy and John List are like the anthropologists who spend months in the field studying the people in their native habitats. But in their case they embed themselves in our messy world to try and solve big, difficult problems, such as the gap between rich and poor students and the violence plaguing inner city schools; the real reasons people discriminate; whether women are really less competitive than men; and how to correctly price products and services.
Their field experiments in the factories, communities, and shops where real people live, work, and play show how economic incentives can change outcomes. Their results will change the way we both think about and take action on big and little problems, and force us to rely no longer on assumptions, but upon the evidence of what really works.
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作者简介
Uri Gneezy is the Arthur Brody Endowed Chair in Behavioral Economics and professor of economics and strategy at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego. He has also been on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Israel's Technion, and the University of Haifa.
John List is the Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He has been a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics (NBER) for more than decade and served as senior economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors for environmental and resource economics.
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读书文摘
简单说来，负外部效应就是指消费某样东西的人不用独自承担这种东西的全部代价。在吃饭分账的例子中，点菜最多、价格最高的人对其他点菜少的人造成了负外部效应。大家只是在对他们所面临的激励机制做出理性的反应而已。
在这方面，我们发现钱真的不一定是“王道”，有些东西是金钱买不到的。在激励人们做某件事的时候，我们应该用他们真正重视的东西去激励他们一他们的时间、他们希望做个好公民的自我形象认知，甚至是几粒糖果一一这些东西通常比给他们几美元（或者罚他们几美元）更加有效。总的来说，并不是所有的激励机制都同样有效。
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