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

by Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0199289816
  • ISBN13 9780199289813
  • Publish Date 15 December 2005 (first published 18 March 2004)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English