Envy

Luigino Bruni ()

A chapter in A Lexicon of Social Well-Being, 2015, pp 47-49 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Our society could resolve much of its discontent by handling better its passions and feelings. Envy is one of the most devastating and dangerous of these feelings, particularly during crises. It needs to be controlled. In times gone by, people knew that unrestrained envy could produce disasters. So they developed an appropriate system of ethics to change and contain it, altering it to become good behavior.

Keywords: Conspicuous Consumption; Hebrew Word; Mutual Growth; Past Teaching; Corporate Hierarchy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889_13

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