Philosophy of Sciene (13)

Let's start an online brainstorming!

Referring to our today's coaching session in Philosophy of Science in order to discover something new, interesting and funny about the “homo oeconomicus”. Professor Peschel said we are free to explore and a leading questions could be: what is the core meaning of "homo oeconomicus" and what are the differences and implications of the model and real-word phenomena? The aim is that we should get differrent, diverse impressions by looking beyond the border.

I'd like to know what drives people or in other words what is their motivation? Some people have besides extrinsic motivation also a lot of instrinisc motivation. Some people like to compete while others prefer to cooperate. Therefore we could observe (a) young people - teenagers / (b) business people (with focus group interviews) / and (c) old people and find out what drives them.

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