The Economy of Esteem
An Essay on Civil and Political Society
Geoffrey Brennan and Philip Pettit
Reviews and Awards
"Brennan and Pettit's book raises a great number of questions of both theoretical and empirical importance. Innovative and illuminating, this book is an interesting contribution to philosophically inspired social sciences." - Diego Rios, Economics and Philosophy, Volume 22, 2006
"'...The Economy of Esteem illuminates a serious inadequacy in the way that the economic approach has been used conventionally; its own creative use of that approach makes its claims all the more credible.'" - Zev M. Trachtenberg, Ethics
"'...Brennan and his co-author Pettit are laying out some of the most important arguments in social science today...Read this book carefully. It could, should, and probably will give rise to many subsequent studies.'" - Tyler Cowen, Politics, Philosophy & Economics