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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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? .
