Paulo A. L. D. Nunes and Laura Onofri
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199656202
- eISBN:
- 9780191742149
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656202.003.0011
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter explores econometric analysis for capturing the relationship between a motivational variable, ‘warm glow’ for the provision of an environmental public good, and socio-economic ...
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This chapter explores econometric analysis for capturing the relationship between a motivational variable, ‘warm glow’ for the provision of an environmental public good, and socio-economic characteristics of individual consumers. We use microeconomic data provided by a national survey that was performed in Portugal to value the provision of a coastal, protected area. Estimation results show that ‘warm glow’ is mostly affected by four main effects: (1) charitable habits of respondents; (2) level of social participation to the community of the respondents: (3) degree of importance attributed to social policies by the respondents, and (4) the religious belief of the respondents. The interpretation of our estimates allowed us to categorize and profile two types of ‘warm-glowers’: the ‘ego-driven’ and the ‘socially-oriented’ ones. There is critical discussion on embodying (or not) the latent motivational structures (and underlying determination factors) when performing cost‐benefit analysis of environmental public goodsLess
This chapter explores econometric analysis for capturing the relationship between a motivational variable, ‘warm glow’ for the provision of an environmental public good, and socio-economic characteristics of individual consumers. We use microeconomic data provided by a national survey that was performed in Portugal to value the provision of a coastal, protected area. Estimation results show that ‘warm glow’ is mostly affected by four main effects: (1) charitable habits of respondents; (2) level of social participation to the community of the respondents: (3) degree of importance attributed to social policies by the respondents, and (4) the religious belief of the respondents. The interpretation of our estimates allowed us to categorize and profile two types of ‘warm-glowers’: the ‘ego-driven’ and the ‘socially-oriented’ ones. There is critical discussion on embodying (or not) the latent motivational structures (and underlying determination factors) when performing cost‐benefit analysis of environmental public goods
Quassim Cassam
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- December 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199657575
- eISBN:
- 9780191793110
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199657575.003.0014
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Some self-ignorance, even with respect to one’s own standing attitudes, is inevitable and normal for humans. Self-ignorance needn’t be explained by reference to motivational factors such as ...
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Some self-ignorance, even with respect to one’s own standing attitudes, is inevitable and normal for humans. Self-ignorance needn’t be explained by reference to motivational factors such as repression. Inferentialism about self-knowledge makes available a non-motivational account of self-ignorance in terms of a lack of evidence, inattention, poor reasoning or misinterpretation of the evidence for beliefs about oneself. Successful deliberation does not necessarily provide us with knowledge of why we believe what we believe, because it fails to provide any insight into the impact on one’s beliefs and other attitudes of non-rational factors such as one’s epistemic character. Nisbett and Wilson provide further evidence of our inability in many cases to explain our own choices and decisions. The prevalence of self-ignorance is an empirical matter, and the overcoming of self-ignorance requires the identification and removal of obstacles to self-knowledge. This is not always possible.Less
Some self-ignorance, even with respect to one’s own standing attitudes, is inevitable and normal for humans. Self-ignorance needn’t be explained by reference to motivational factors such as repression. Inferentialism about self-knowledge makes available a non-motivational account of self-ignorance in terms of a lack of evidence, inattention, poor reasoning or misinterpretation of the evidence for beliefs about oneself. Successful deliberation does not necessarily provide us with knowledge of why we believe what we believe, because it fails to provide any insight into the impact on one’s beliefs and other attitudes of non-rational factors such as one’s epistemic character. Nisbett and Wilson provide further evidence of our inability in many cases to explain our own choices and decisions. The prevalence of self-ignorance is an empirical matter, and the overcoming of self-ignorance requires the identification and removal of obstacles to self-knowledge. This is not always possible.
