Not Just for the Money: An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation

From: Personnel Psychology | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Bruno Frey. Not Just for the Money: An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation. Cheltenham, UK: Edgar Elgar Publishing, 1997, 156 pages.

Reviewed by John J Lawler, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Shortly after assuming the presidency in 1969, Richard Nixon and his advisors determined that one way to contain the ever-increasing opposition of America's youth to the Vietnam War was to implement a lottery for the military draft. The reasoning seemed to be that much of the opposition to the war was fueled by the uncertainty of students ...

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