From 57c2f822299985c93c6cf34429011c0c8d03d3ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eveline Xie <42004648+eveline-xie@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:38:41 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?=E2=9E=95=20Defines=20"egonomics"=20(#342)?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * add egonomics definition * Update 11ty/definitions/egonomics.md Co-authored-by: Tatiana Mac * Update 11ty/definitions/egonomics.md Co-authored-by: Tatiana Mac * Update 11ty/definitions/egonomics.md Co-authored-by: Tatiana Mac Co-authored-by: Tatiana Mac --- 11ty/definitions/egonomics.md | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 11ty/definitions/egonomics.md diff --git a/11ty/definitions/egonomics.md b/11ty/definitions/egonomics.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d649676c --- /dev/null +++ b/11ty/definitions/egonomics.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: egonomics +slug: egonomics +defined: true +excerpt: the investment in time, effort, and money done by people to manage personal and professional online reputations. +speech: noun +reading: + - text: Egonomics, or the Art of Self-Management + href: https://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/aecrev/v68y1978i2p290-94.html +--- + +the investment in time, effort, and money done by people to manage personal and professional online reputations. + +## Origins + +Egonomics is first proposed by Thomas Schelling in his paper "Egonomics, or the Art of Self-Management." + +"Schelling suggested that individuals suffer from a sort of split-personality disorder whereby the present self wants a specific thing (e.g., eating a cookie) but the future or past self wants a different thing (e.g., losing weight). Both selves exist, but do not exist at the same time."[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egonomics).