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Author(s): Lopes, Helena
Date: Mar-2011
Title: Why do people work?: Individual wants versus common goods
Volume: 45
Number: 1
Pages: 57-74
Reference: LOPES, H. (2011) Why do people work?: Individual wants versus common goods. Journal of Economic Issues, 45(1), 57-74. https://doi.org/10.2753/JEI0021-3624450104
ISSN: 0021-3624
Keywords: Common goods
Moral goods
Relational goods
Working environment
Abstract: Empirical evidence strongly suggests that something other than pay is sought in work. By emphasizing consumption over production, the worker as a producer was eclipsed by mainstream economics and replaced by the worker as a consumer. The analysis of the relational dimension of work life was also discarded. We argue that the decision to work and behavior at work is very much driven by the search for relational goods and moral goods, defined as intangible entities that emerge from social interactions. The "goodness" of relational and moral goods stems from their being commonly shared. Two properties of both goods — commonality and immanence-in-action — rule out the possibility of their being captured in a utility maximizing framework.
Peerreviewed: Sim
Access type: Open Access
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