About this episode
<p>A series of academic studies suggest that the wealthy are, to put it bluntly, selfish jerks. It’s an easy narrative to embrace — but is it true? As part of GiveDirectly’s “Pods Fight Poverty” campaign, we revisit a 2017 episode.</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>SOURCES:</strong><ul><li><a href="http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jandreon/">Jim Andreoni</a>, professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego.</li><li><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/nnikiforakis/">Nikos Nikiforakis</a>, professor of economics at New York University in Abu Dhabi.</li><li><a href="https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/piff/">Paul Piff</a>, associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine.</li><li><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/janstoop/home">Jan Stoop</a>, associate professor of applied economics at the Erasmus School of Economics.</li></ul></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><strong>RESOURCES:</strong><ul><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w23229">Are the Rich More Selfish Than the Poor, or do They Just Have More Money? A Natural Field Experiment</a>," by James Andreoni, Nikos Nikiforakis, and Jan Stoop (<i>National Bureau of Economic Research,</i> 2017).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pernicious-effects-of-economic-inequality">Exploring the Psychology of Wealth, 'Pernicious' Effects of Economic Inequality</a>," (<i>PBS NewsHour, </i>2013).</li><li>"<a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976">Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function</a>," by Anandi Mani, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, and Jiaying Zhao <i>(Science,</i> 2013).</li><li>"<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.full.pdf">Higher Social Class Predicts Increased Unethical Behavior</a>," by Paul Piff, Daniel Stancato, Stéphane Côté, Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and Dacher Keltner <i>(PNAS, 2011).</i></li><li>"<a href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.101.7.3330">Relative Earnings and Giving in a Real-Effort Experiment</a>," by Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, and Nikos Nikiforakis <i>(American Economic Review,</i> 2011).</li><li>"<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10683-009-9230-z">Experimenter Demand Effects in Economic Experiments</a>," by Daniel John Zizzo <i>(Experimental Economics,</i> 2009).</li><li>"<a href="http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jandreon/Publications/ej90.pdf">Impure Altruism and Donations to Public Goods: A Theory of Warm-Glow Giving</a>," by James Andreoni <i>(The Economic Journal,</i> 1990).</li><li>"<a href="http://econweb.ucsd.edu/~jandreon/Publications/JPubE88Limits.pdf">Privately Provided Public Goods in a Large Economy: The Limits of Altruism</a>," by James Andreoni <i>(Journal of Public Economics,</i> 1987).</li><li>"<a href="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/261212">A Positive Model of Private Charity and Public Transfers</a>," by Russell Roberts <i>(Journal of Political Economy,</i> 1984).</li><li><a href="https://www.givedirectly.org/podsfightpoverty/?ref=freakradio">Pods Fight Poverty Campaign on Give Directly</a><i>.</i></li></ul></li></ul><p> </p><ul><li><strong>EXTRAS:</strong><ul><li>“<a href="https://freakonomics.com/2013/10/10/how-to-raise-money-without-killing-a-kitten-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/">How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten</a>,” by <i>Freakonomics Radio</i> (2013).</li></ul></li></ul><br/> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>