Non-economic approaches to competition: Lessons from psychoanalysis

Paul Cocioc ()

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: The paper suggests that several competitive behaviors are well explained by psychological mechanism of human mind. And such explanations could be generalized to the behavior of all economic actors, to the firms’ strategies and actions on the market. Freud’s classical psychoanalysis is the framework to offer potential valid arguments for the role of competition in modern societies, for its significance and importance.

Keywords: competition; cooperation; Freud; rivalry; extreme competition; psychoanalysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A19 B49 D03 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016, Revised 2016
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Published in Review of Economic Studies and Research Virgil Madgearu 2.9(2016): pp. 37-48

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