 Avner Offer (1944–)Joshua Getzler ()
Chapter 25 in The Palgrave Companion to Oxford Economics, 2021, pp 623-644 from Springer Abstract: Abstract Avner Offer’s work includes the history of property politics in England before the Great War; the impact of the international food economy on politics and strategy in Britain, the British Empire and Germany before and during that War; analysis of the experience of affluence and its impact on social mores and well-being in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1950; and a study of abstract economic theory and its influence on political ideologies and economic organisation in the West since the late 1960s. In his model building, he sees motivation through the lens of a quest for self-esteem and approbation and views institutions as devices to control and constrain commitment across time. Much of his work can be read as a defence of social democracy, and an analysis of how welfare can be destroyed by political and economic calculations inducing inequality and conflict. Keywords: Property; Professions; British politics; First World War; Agrarian history; Food economy; Affluence; Behavioural economics; Economics of happiness; Nobel Prize in Economics; Welfare states (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-58471-9_25 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58471-9_25 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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