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Comparisons in Economic Thought: Economic interdependency reconsidered book cover

1st Edition

Comparisons in Economic Thought Economic interdependency reconsidered

By Stavros A. Drakopoulos Copyright 2016
192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The idea of comparing rewards with others has a long and persistent presence in the social sciences, and can be found in many psychological, social and managerial theories. In economics, this idea can be traced back through the works of a substantial number of eminent thinkers, from Genovesi and Hume, to Smith, Ricardo, Marx, and Mill, through to Veblen, Pigou, and Keynes. In the last two... Read more

Introduction

1. Social Comparisons in Other Social Sciences

2. Social Comparisons in Pre-classical and Classical Economic Thought

3. The Marginalization of Social Comparisons

4. The Reappearance of Social Comparisons

5. Social Comparisons in Microeconomics

6. Social Comparisons: Welfare, Macroeconomics and Labour Economics

7. Social Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being

8. Methodological Issues

Epilogue

Biography

Stavros A. Drakopoulos is a full Professor of Economics in the Department of Philosophy and History of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His research interests include Economic Methodology and the History of Economic Thought, Labour Economics, and the Economics of Subjective Well-being.

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