||8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| A research agenda more than a real theory|By JJ vd Weele|This is an interesting book. Brennan and Pettit depart from the idea that our desire for esteem is one of the driving forces of every human being and that it has as such been severely under-researched. They argue that esteem is distributed throughout society according to certain mechanisms that resemble the economy of mo|||"In The Economy of Esteem, Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit aim to restore attention to a fact that has been substantially neglected by an influential school of social theory for over a century....Brennan and Pettit's account of esteem thus prompt
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 receiv...
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