The economic motivation for scientific design and engineering is significant.
More importantly is the fact that much youth crime does not have an economic motivation.
So unfortunately we know that, where there's strong economic motivation, those things tend to happen more than when there isn't.
But there is a more fundamental economic motivation at work.
There is also a clear military, political, or economic motivation.
Suicide has long been held to have partially economic motivations.
They felt that warfare always had a hidden economic motivation.
I don't really believe Apple has an economic motivation to maliciously do something.
Thus economic motivation does work and could work in reverse.
Even as they acknowledge their economic motivation, Russian officials defend the sale.