Reconsidering Identity Economics: Human Well-Being And Governance

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.

• | Author: Laszlo Garai
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 183 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1349707260
• | ISBN-13: 9781349707263