Nothing in Human Makes Sense Except in the Light of Economics
"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" is a 1973 essay by the evolutionary biologist and Eastern Orthodox Christian Theodosius Dobzhansky, criticising anti-evolution creationism and espousing theistic evolution. Through evolution, human behavior depends on incentives, and incentive structure is shaped by economics. Introduction to Incentives Even what you think depends on incentives, because good education depends on incentive structure. Public-private partnership schools & colleges and its implementation Do economist think that everyone is self-interested all the time? Of course not. We love our spouses and children just like everyone else! But economists do think that people respond in predictable ways to incentives of all kinds. Fame, power, reputation, sex, and love are all important incentives. Economist even think that benevolence responds to incentives. It's not surprising to economist, for example, that charities publicize the names ...