Reconsidering Identity Economics: Human Well-Being and Governance

Reconsidering Identity Economics: Human Well-Being and Governance
ISBN-10
1137525614
ISBN-13
9781137525611
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
172
Language
English
Published
2016-11-29
Publisher
Springer
Author
Laszlo Garai

Description

This book presents an unorthodox identity economics that approaches social identity through a non-classical psychology. Garai applies the modern physics concept of wave-particle duality to economic psychology, finding a corresponding duality in object-oriented activity and historically generated social identity. These two factors interconnect to create a double-storied structure of social identity and its behavioral manifestations. The book then presents a calculation device for mediating between behavioral and identity economics. Garai then applies all these factors to two socioeconomic systems developed during the second modernization: Bolshevik-type “socialism” and post-Bolshevik “capitalism.” In this context, he examines the Eastern Bloc nomenklatura as a duality of bureaucratic and patron-client organization (“state and party”) and the establishment of both today's material capitalism and its other half: human capital economics.

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