SuperFreakonomics & The Greatest Question Ever Asked

I was a big fan of the book Freakonomics and have a copy of SuperFreakonomics on my bedstand. Today on the Freakonomics blog, a blog about human behavior and incentives, Stephen Dubner writes today about what might be the greatest question he's ever been asked. It's from a journalist in India:

You state that your book is based on one fundamental assumption about human nature: people respond to incentives. Which is another way of saying that people are basically selfish. Take someone like Jesus Christ. What was his ā€œincentiveā€ to go on the cross?
Dubner is looking for perspectives on this question. Surf on over to the Freakonomics blog and let him know what you think.

My take: It's difficult to fit kenosis and agape into traditional models of Homo economicus.

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