George Loewenstein
The Carnegie Mellon economist who described curiosity as a hunger for the gap in what you know.
Books
Exotic Preferences2007His papers on behavioral economics and human motivation, the wants textbook economics leaves out.
Mentioned in
In praise of asking, part one
Answers got cheap, so where does a good question come from? The story starts with a parrot asking “What’s that?” in front of a mirror, and goes on to silent classrooms and an AI that never needs anything.