The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society

by Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit

Book Overview

This groundbreaking book by two distinguished scholars from different disciplines begins by outlining the psychology of esteem and the way the working of that psychology can give rise to an economy. It then shows how a variety of social patterns that are otherwise anomalous come to make a lot of sense within an economics of esteem. And it looks, finally, at the ways in which the economy of esteem may be reshaped so as to make for an improvement --...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199289816
• ISBN13: 9780199289813
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"