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It frames a debate between bureaucratic planners who treat academics as homo economicus and traditional champions who emphasize a vocation-based homo heroicus. 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about the motivationof agents in general,and of academics in particular.The storyinforms us about themotors ofactionandabout thelevers wherebyaction can be controlled.The motors of action,in particular themotors of academic effort,are provided by people's economicinterests:their interests in the accumulation of the sorts of goodsthat can be traded,the sorts of goods that have a cash value.Thelevers whereby action can be controlled are provided by thosefactors which we can manipulate so as to affect the economicinterests of the agents we wish to influence.  \nMuch of the debatc on the organisation of highereducation andadvanced research has turned,implicitly orexplicitly,around thiseconomistic story.On the one hand are the bureaucrats andplanners who think,or are believed to think,of academics asinstantiations of the economistic model.On the other are thetraditional champions of the university,who argue that the storyfails to recognise the vocational and dedicated nature of theacademic life.The one group represents academics in the mouldof homo economicus,the other in the mould of homo heroicus.  \nIn this paper we wish to make a number of points that aredesigned to undermine the ground of this gladiatorial contest;thefull development of the points mustbe undertaken elsewhere.Inthe first section we make some points that suggest that theeconomic model is not the whole story about academics.In thesecond section we add a number of considerations which suggestthat the heroic modelis also part of the story.And thenin the thirdsection we look at the implications for strategy of this mix ofmodels;we ask whether this mixed account of the motors ofacademic life has implications for the levers whereby academicperformance can be controlled.But in arguing that academicmotivationis parteconomic,partheroic,wedonot mean to say thatthere are not other parts toit too.By way of emphasisingthat pointwe go on in a fourth section to discuss the desire for regard andhonour as a motor of academic life,and we comment on thestrategic significance of that notivation:we mention some leverswhereby that motor can be activatedWe think that there is greatroom for research on this aspect of academic motivation,andmotivation in general.Homo econonicus and homo heroicus havetended to distract attention from homo socialis among those con-cerned with institutionaldesign.The paper concludes with a shortsection on the practical implications of che points made.  \nThroughout our discussion we shall assume that teaching,research andscholarship are what the universities are supposed toproduce and that'betterness'in teaching,research andscholarshipis a meaningful notion.We shall take it that 'betterness'isunderstood in the terms deployed when we make professionaljudgments as to the qualities of candidates for positions,or therelative strengths of various departments.We do not claim thatsuch academic notions of quality or of what the universities aresupposed to produce are entirely uncontested.There is,forexample,a suggestion in some quarters that current'reforms'ofuniversity arrangements are motivatedin part to re-orient univer-sity activities to ends other than academic quality:ends such as  \ntions committees?Clearly,if academic authorities and theirelectoraland promotions committees are not motivacedto choosethe candidates who are best on academic grounds,then rationalcandidates will have no incentive to be productive.The systemcepends on academic decision makers being motivacedto sustainthe quality ofthe system.Canthis beexplainedinhomoeconomicusterms?  \nIn the case of teaching,there may be an argument of thefollowing kind on offer.Decision-makers(departmental headsand electoral committecs and vice-chancellors)desire larger stu-dent numbers because larger student numbers mean more staffand larger resources to manage,and larger resourcesin total m","cbCaimPtAjQBD0fA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimPtAjQBD0fA","pdf",266427,"English","# Homo Economicus in 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