Chapter 2. The Economic Motives
1. If you found $10 to-day on the street, what would you do with it?
2. What would be the chief differences between your use of it now and at the age of five or the age of twelve?
3. Name Crusoe's wants in the order of their importance.
4. Is it well to be contented with your lot? Is it well to be discontented?
5. Why does a horse like hay and a man prefer meat?
6. Are the wants of a savage more easily satisfied than those of civilized men? Why?
7. How many motives led you to come to college?
8. If you ever worked for wages, or a salary, was that the only motive? What else?
9. James Bryce says that the incomes of American university professors are much less than those of men of corresponding ability in law and medicine. If true, why?
10. If you could, would you do nothing always? Why?
11. Which would you prefer, to clerk in a store at $1.50 a day, or to lay masonry at $2? Why?
12. Do men work better under threat or when their pride is appealed to?
13. Is pride as powerful a motive as greed, in economic action?
14. Do you know any persons that work from a sense of duty alone?
15. Are charity workers usually well paid? Why?