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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 -- by reference to received criteria -- in 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 economic and social science and of moral and political theory. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
