Economics and Social Interaction
Accounting for Interpersonal Relations

An innovative 2005 study exploring what economics can tell us about interpersonal relationships.

Benedetto Gui (Edited by), Robert Sugden (Edited by)

9780521848848, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 September 2005

316 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.64 kg

Review of the hardback: '… the book is an instructive introduction to one of the most relevant topics of economic theory in the coming years.' Economics and Philosophy

First published in 2005, Economics and Social Interaction is a fresh attempt to overcome the traditional inability of economics to deal with interpersonal phenomena that occur within the sphere of markets and productive organizations. It makes use of traditional economic concepts for understanding interpersonal events, while venturing beyond those concepts to give a better account of personalised interactions. In contrast to other books, Economics and Social Interaction offers the reader a rigorous effort at extending economic analysis to a difficult field in a consistent manner, sensitive to insights from other behavioural and social sciences. This collection represents an important contribution to a growing research agenda in the social sciences.

Preface
1. Why interpersonal relations matter for economics Benedetto Gui and Robert Sugden
2. From transactions to encounters: the joint generation of relational goods and conventional values Benedetto Gui
3. Fellow-feeling Robert Sugden
4. Interpersonal interaction and economic theory: the case of public goods Nicholas Bardsley
5. Under trusting eyes. The response nature of trust Vittorio Pelligra
6. Interpersonal relations and job satisfaction: some empirical results in social and community care services Carlo Borzaga and Sara Depedri
7. On the possible conflict between economic growth and social development Pier Luigi Sacco, Angelo Antoci and Paolo Vanin
8. The logic of good social relations Serge-Christophe Kolm
9. The mutual validation of ends Shaun Hargreaves-Heap
10. Hic sunt leones. Interpersonal relations as unexplored territory in the tradition of economics Luigino Bruni
11. Authority and power in economic and sociological approaches to interpersonal relations: from interactions to embeddedness Bernard Gazier and Isabelle This Saint-Jean
12. Interpersonal relations and economics: comments from a feminist perspective Julie A. Nelson
13. Economics and interpersonal relations: ruling the social back in Louis Putterman
Index.

Subject Areas: Economic theory & philosophy [KCA], Economics [KC], Psychology [JM], Sociology & anthropology [JH]