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Economy of Esteem An Essay on Civil and Political Society

Brennan Geoffrey Pettit Philip
Heftet / 2005 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199289813
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
545 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

Forfatter
Brennan Geoffrey
Pettit Philip

Biografisk notat

Geoffrey Brennan trained originally as a public economist, but increasingly works in rational actor political theory. He was at the Australian National University for ten years, before he took up a Professorship in the Public Choice Center at Virgina Tech. In 1983, he returned to the ANU to become head of the Economics Department and in 1988 joined the Research School of Social Science, of which he was Director from 1991 to 1997. He is currently the Editor of Economics and Philosophy. Philip Pettit teaches political theory and philosophy at Princeton University, where is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics. Prior to taking up this post in 2002, he had been at the Australia National University, Canberra for many years. Irish by background and training, he has previously held positions at University College, Dublin; Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and Bradford University. His interests include the philosophy of cognitive and social science as well as moral and political theory.

Economy of Esteem An Essay on Civil and Political Society

Brennan Geoffrey Pettit Philip
Heftet / 2005 / Engelsk
Brennan Geoffrey Pettit Philip
Heftet / 2005 / Engelsk
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Brennan and Pettit's book raises a great number of questions of both theoretical and empirical importance. Innovative and illuminating, this book is an interesting contribution to philosophically inspired social sciences.

Diego Rios, Economics and Philosophy, Volume 22, 2006

'...The Economy of Esteem illuminates a serious inadequacy in the way that the economic approach has been used conventionally; its own creative use of that approach makes its claims all the more credible.'

Zev M. Trachtenberg, Ethics

'...Brennan and his co-author Pettit are laying out some of the most important arguments in social science today...Read this book carefully. It could, should, and probably will give rise to many subsequent studies.'

Tyler Cowen, Politics, Philosophy & Economics

However much people want esteem, it is an untradable commodity-- there is no way that you can buy the good opinion of another or sell to others your good opinion of them. And yet esteem is allocated in society according to systematic determinants: people's performance, publicity, and presentation relative to others will help to fix how much esteem they enjoy and how much disesteem they avoid. In turn, rational individuals are bound to compete with one another, however tacitly, in the attempt to increase their chances of winning esteem and avoiding disesteem. And this competition shapes the environments in which they each pursue esteem, setting relevant comparators and benchmarks, and determining the cost that a person must bear for obtaining a given level of esteem. Hidden in the multifarious interactions and exchanges of social life, then, there is a quiet force at work -- a force as silent and powerful as gravity -- which molds the basic form of people's relationships and associations. This force was more or less routinely invoked in the writings of classical theorists like Aristotle and Plato, Locke and Montesquieu, Mandeville and Hume and Madison. Although Adam Smith himself gave it great credence, however, the rise of economics proper coincided with a sudden decline in the attention devoted to the economy of esteem. What had been a topic of compelling interest for earlier authors fell into relative neglect throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book is designed to reverse the trend. It 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 to improve overall social outcomes. While making connections with older patterns of social theorising, it offers a novel orientation for contemporary thought about how society works and how it may be made to work. It puts the economy of esteem firmly on the agenda of economics and social science and of moral and political theory.
Les mer
This groundbreaking book revisits the writings of classic theorists in an effort re-evaluate the importance and influence the psychology of esteem has on the economy. The authors explore ways the economy of esteem may be reshaped to improve overall social outcomes and offer new ways of thinking about how society works and may be made to work.
Les mer
Introduction: Rediscovering the Economy of Esteem ; PART I: TOWARDS AN ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 1. The Nature and Attraction of Esteem ; 2. The Demand for Esteem ; 3. The Supply of Esteem ; 4. The Economy of Esteem ; PART II: WITHIN THE ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 5. A Simple Equilibrium in Performance ; 6. A More Complex Equilibrium in Performance ; 7. Multiple Equilibria and Bootstrapping Performance ; 8. Publicity and Individual Responses ; 9. Publicity and Accepted Standards ; 10. Seeking and Shunning Publicity ; 11. Voluntary Association ; 12. Involuntary Association ; PART III: EXPLOITING THE ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 13. The Intangible Hand in Profile ; 14. The Intangible Hand in Practice ; 15. Mobilising the Intangible Hand
Les mer
`In Esteem, Brennan, an economist by training, and Pettit, a philosopher and political theorist, attempt to redirect the attention of social scientists back to classical writings from Aristotle to Adam Smith, David Hume, and James Madison on one of humans' fundamental needs--our desire for prestige, recognition, approbation, status, or what these authors term esteem, a highly-valued "commodity" but one not so subject to the usual supply-demand forces and characteristics.... This is a well-researched, well-presented serious piece of scholarship that social scientists and other academics will appreciate and applaud.... Highly Recommended. ' Choice `An example of how economists are taking an interdisciplinary approach to their research and writing, which is helping make their work more accessible and relevant.... This is very far from the kind of economics so many of us suffered through in Econ 101.... The analytical rigor of conventional economists needs to be combined with a rich understanding of the human context. Fortunately, that is what more and more economists, including the authors ... are doing. ' Strategy + Business
Les mer
A Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2004 This highly original book opens up a new, or perhaps forgotten, area of social thinking and study. The treatment is at once historical and theoretical, and combines the best intellectual and empirical rigour of psychology, philosophy and economics. The book is deeply interdisciplinary, being of interest to all social scientists but also to philosophers and lawyers
Les mer
Geoffrey Brennan trained originally as a public economist, but increasingly works in rational actor political theory. He was at the Australian National University for ten years, before he took up a Professorship in the Public Choice Center at Virgina Tech. In 1983, he returned to the ANU to become head of the Economics Department and in 1988 joined the Research School of Social Science, of which he was Director from 1991 to 1997. He is currently the Editor of Economics and Philosophy. Philip Pettit teaches political theory and philosophy at Princeton University, where is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics. Prior to taking up this post in 2002, he had been at the Australia National University, Canberra for many years. Irish by background and training, he has previously held positions at University College, Dublin; Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and Bradford University. His interests include the philosophy of cognitive and social science as well as moral and political theory.
Les mer
A Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2004 This highly original book opens up a new, or perhaps forgotten, area of social thinking and study. The treatment is at once historical and theoretical, and combines the best intellectual and empirical rigour of psychology, philosophy and economics. The book is deeply interdisciplinary, being of interest to all social scientists but also to philosophers and lawyers
Les mer

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Brennan and Pettit's book raises a great number of questions of both theoretical and empirical importance. Innovative and illuminating, this book is an interesting contribution to philosophically inspired social sciences.

Diego Rios, Economics and Philosophy, Volume 22, 2006

'...The Economy of Esteem illuminates a serious inadequacy in the way that the economic approach has been used conventionally; its own creative use of that approach makes its claims all the more credible.'

Zev M. Trachtenberg, Ethics

'...Brennan and his co-author Pettit are laying out some of the most important arguments in social science today...Read this book carefully. It could, should, and probably will give rise to many subsequent studies.'

Tyler Cowen, Politics, Philosophy & Economics

However much people want esteem, it is an untradable commodity-- there is no way that you can buy the good opinion of another or sell to others your good opinion of them. And yet esteem is allocated in society according to systematic determinants: people's performance, publicity, and presentation relative to others will help to fix how much esteem they enjoy and how much disesteem they avoid. In turn, rational individuals are bound to compete with one another, however tacitly, in the attempt to increase their chances of winning esteem and avoiding disesteem. And this competition shapes the environments in which they each pursue esteem, setting relevant comparators and benchmarks, and determining the cost that a person must bear for obtaining a given level of esteem. Hidden in the multifarious interactions and exchanges of social life, then, there is a quiet force at work -- a force as silent and powerful as gravity -- which molds the basic form of people's relationships and associations. This force was more or less routinely invoked in the writings of classical theorists like Aristotle and Plato, Locke and Montesquieu, Mandeville and Hume and Madison. Although Adam Smith himself gave it great credence, however, the rise of economics proper coincided with a sudden decline in the attention devoted to the economy of esteem. What had been a topic of compelling interest for earlier authors fell into relative neglect throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book is designed to reverse the trend. It 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 to improve overall social outcomes. While making connections with older patterns of social theorising, it offers a novel orientation for contemporary thought about how society works and how it may be made to work. It puts the economy of esteem firmly on the agenda of economics and social science and of moral and political theory.
Les mer
This groundbreaking book revisits the writings of classic theorists in an effort re-evaluate the importance and influence the psychology of esteem has on the economy. The authors explore ways the economy of esteem may be reshaped to improve overall social outcomes and offer new ways of thinking about how society works and may be made to work.
Les mer
Introduction: Rediscovering the Economy of Esteem ; PART I: TOWARDS AN ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 1. The Nature and Attraction of Esteem ; 2. The Demand for Esteem ; 3. The Supply of Esteem ; 4. The Economy of Esteem ; PART II: WITHIN THE ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 5. A Simple Equilibrium in Performance ; 6. A More Complex Equilibrium in Performance ; 7. Multiple Equilibria and Bootstrapping Performance ; 8. Publicity and Individual Responses ; 9. Publicity and Accepted Standards ; 10. Seeking and Shunning Publicity ; 11. Voluntary Association ; 12. Involuntary Association ; PART III: EXPLOITING THE ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 13. The Intangible Hand in Profile ; 14. The Intangible Hand in Practice ; 15. Mobilising the Intangible Hand
Les mer
`In Esteem, Brennan, an economist by training, and Pettit, a philosopher and political theorist, attempt to redirect the attention of social scientists back to classical writings from Aristotle to Adam Smith, David Hume, and James Madison on one of humans' fundamental needs--our desire for prestige, recognition, approbation, status, or what these authors term esteem, a highly-valued "commodity" but one not so subject to the usual supply-demand forces and characteristics.... This is a well-researched, well-presented serious piece of scholarship that social scientists and other academics will appreciate and applaud.... Highly Recommended. ' Choice `An example of how economists are taking an interdisciplinary approach to their research and writing, which is helping make their work more accessible and relevant.... This is very far from the kind of economics so many of us suffered through in Econ 101.... The analytical rigor of conventional economists needs to be combined with a rich understanding of the human context. Fortunately, that is what more and more economists, including the authors ... are doing. ' Strategy + Business
Les mer
A Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2004 This highly original book opens up a new, or perhaps forgotten, area of social thinking and study. The treatment is at once historical and theoretical, and combines the best intellectual and empirical rigour of psychology, philosophy and economics. The book is deeply interdisciplinary, being of interest to all social scientists but also to philosophers and lawyers
Les mer
Geoffrey Brennan trained originally as a public economist, but increasingly works in rational actor political theory. He was at the Australian National University for ten years, before he took up a Professorship in the Public Choice Center at Virgina Tech. In 1983, he returned to the ANU to become head of the Economics Department and in 1988 joined the Research School of Social Science, of which he was Director from 1991 to 1997. He is currently the Editor of Economics and Philosophy. Philip Pettit teaches political theory and philosophy at Princeton University, where is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics. Prior to taking up this post in 2002, he had been at the Australia National University, Canberra for many years. Irish by background and training, he has previously held positions at University College, Dublin; Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and Bradford University. His interests include the philosophy of cognitive and social science as well as moral and political theory.
Les mer
A Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2004 This highly original book opens up a new, or perhaps forgotten, area of social thinking and study. The treatment is at once historical and theoretical, and combines the best intellectual and empirical rigour of psychology, philosophy and economics. The book is deeply interdisciplinary, being of interest to all social scientists but also to philosophers and lawyers
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780199289813
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
545 gr
Høyde
232 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

Forfatter
Brennan Geoffrey
Pettit Philip

Biografisk notat

Geoffrey Brennan trained originally as a public economist, but increasingly works in rational actor political theory. He was at the Australian National University for ten years, before he took up a Professorship in the Public Choice Center at Virgina Tech. In 1983, he returned to the ANU to become head of the Economics Department and in 1988 joined the Research School of Social Science, of which he was Director from 1991 to 1997. He is currently the Editor of Economics and Philosophy. Philip Pettit teaches political theory and philosophy at Princeton University, where is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics. Prior to taking up this post in 2002, he had been at the Australia National University, Canberra for many years. Irish by background and training, he has previously held positions at University College, Dublin; Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and Bradford University. His interests include the philosophy of cognitive and social science as well as moral and political theory.

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