Machiavelli’s Mistake: Are Green Incentives a Substitute for Green Citizens?
As part of CPPA's Change Climate Policy series, guest lecturer Samuel Bowles (Professor Emeritus of Economics, UMass) presents "Machiavelli's Mistake: Are Green Incentives a Substitute for Green Citizens?"
Samuel Bowles (PhD, Economics, Harvard) is also Professor Emeritus of Economics at UMass Amherst. His forthcoming book with Herbert Gintis, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution , draws on cultural and evolutionary research to challenge the conventional economic assumption that people are motivated entirely by self-interest.