Esteem

Luigino Bruni ()

A chapter in A Lexicon of Social Well-Being, 2015, pp 50-52 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Esteem is an increasingly scarce good in our society, and therefore all the more valuable. Although “demand” for esteem is on the rise, the “supply” is insufficient because we are all so busy looking for it that we lack the time and resources to supply it to those who also seek it, desire and even crave it. The need for esteem is much greater than our capacity to supply it, as the economist Geoffrey Brennan and the philosopher Philip Pettit remind us in their book The Economy of Esteem.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889_14

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