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Reconsidering Identity Economics, Human Well-Being and Governance, by Laszlo Garai

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Reconsidering Identity Economics

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by Laszlo Garai

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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.--, Provided by publisher

1 Identity Economics, Indeed? A Psychological Introduction -- 2 The Double-Storied Structure of Social Identity -- 3 Identity Economics -- 4 How Outstanding Am I? -- 5 Preamble -- 6 Theses on Human Capital -- 7 Determining Economic Activity in a Post-Capitalist System -- 8 Is a Rational Socioeconomic System Possible? -- 9 The Bureaucratic State Governed by an Illegal Movement -- 10 The Paradoxes of the Bolshevik-Type Psycho-Social Structure in Economy -- 11 Inequalities' Inequality: The Triple Rule of Economic Psychology.-12 What Kind of Capitalism Do We Want?