Daniel Pink on Drive, Motivation, and Incentives

Daniel Pink, author of Drive, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about drive, motivation, compensation, and incentives. Pink discusses the implications of using monetary rewards as compensation in business and in education. Much of the conversation focuses on the research underlying the book, Drive, research from behavioral psychology that challenges traditional claims by economists on the power of monetary and other types of incentive. The last part of the conversation turns toward education and the role of incentives in motivating or demotivating students.

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Daniel Pink on Drive, Motivation, and Incentives is an episode from EconTalk Archives, 2010 by Library of Economics and Liberty.

This episode is 1:19:04 long.

This episode was published on Aug 30, 2010.

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