Commitment: The white lies we tell for the social good | Jason Shogren | TEDxCheyenne

See a riveting talk from acclaimed Economist Jason Shogren on the behavior that emerges through the non-enforceable commitment to holding oneself to a higher integrity.

What truths do you commit to when there is no reward or punishment? What white lies do we tell ourselves, and others around us, as a reflection of the commitments we make for the social good?

Jason Shogren lives in Centennial, Wyoming. His day job is in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming, his alma mater. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has served as professor to King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, and was in the Council of Economic Advisers in the White House. He served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In his night job, he leads J Shogren Shanghai’d, who play a catawampus style of American music—new sounds played through an old radio.

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