Yochai Benkler: After Selfishness - Wikipedia 1, Hobbes 0 at Half Time

When people think they’re treated fairly, they’re more motivated to act; the core idea of separating fairness and justice from productivity and incentives misses the reality of what people care about.

This video is pretty much brilliant. I personally have a strong aversion to making moral arguments from an economic perspective, but this lecture lends credence to my increasing suspicion that the arguments can go hand in hand – that a just society is in fact a more productive one.