Nationalism and Rationality

Klappentext This collection of essays uses rational-choice analysis to try to find the origins of nationalism. Zusammenfassung Why is nationalism so widespread? How does the phenomenon arise? This collection of essays by leading social scientists uses rational-choice analysis to try to find the origins of nationalism! whether and why it promotes good or evil! and how to deal with its occasional destructive consequences. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors and discussants; Introduction; 1. Rights, rationality, and nationality James S. Coleman; 2. Self interest, group identity Russell Hardin; 3. Some economics of ethnic capital formation and conflict Ronald Wintrobe; 4. Ethnic clubs, ethnic conflict and the rise of ethnic nationalism Roger D. Congleton; 5. The re-emergence of secessionism: lessons from Quebec Stéphane Dion; 6. Nationalism revisited Albert Breton and Margot Breton; 7. Notes on the political economy of nationalism Ronald Findlay; 8. Conservative nationalism and democratic institutions Jean-Dominique Lafay; 9. Can economics explain nationalism? Ugo Pagano; 10. The economics of socialist nationalism: evidence and theory Mario Ferrero; 11. Regulating nations and ethnic communities Brendan O'Leary and John McGarry; 12. Nations competing against themselves: an interpretation of European integration Pierre Salmon; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Albert Breton, Albert Galeotti Breton
• Assisted by: Albert Breton (Editor), Gianluigi Galeotti (Editor), Pierre Salmon (Editor), Ronald Wintrobe (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521142670
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14267-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Nationalism, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements