Opportunity to Cheat
Dan Ariely, a behavioural economist, says about Indonesia’s experiment in a blog on MIT’s Technology Review Web site: “With honesty cafés widespread, residents will have more temptations to cheat, more occasion to cheat, and maybe… find it easier to cheat again in other contexts.”
(This story appears in the 17 July, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
Though this is a good article, I would like to draw you attention to Shani Shingnapur. Every shop and house in this Village does not have doors. Most of the shops operate without being manned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shani_Shingnapur Of course, this works on fear and faith.
on Jul 10, 2009