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1. Identity Economics, Indeed? A Psychological Introduction

Author : Laszlo Garai

Published in: Reconsidering Identity Economics

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

I know that my title might sound strange as the title for the introduction to a book whose subject is identity economics. However, this book approaches social identity from the perspective of economic psychology; at the time that it produced its American incarnation, psychology was all about behavioral psychology.

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Footnotes
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In an essay in the interdisciplinary jurnal of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) I reported how Szentagothai, the president of that academy, was humiliated by the opinion leader of the scholars in the Institute of Psychology of HAS after J. Szentagothai delivered a lecture on his brain model Magyar Tudomány [Hungarian Science] “Az interdiszciplinaritásról és halmozott hátrányairól” [The interdisciplinarity and its cumulative handicap] 1999/ 3. [in Hungarian] http://​epa.​oszk.​hu/​00700/​00775/​00003/​1999_​03_​12.​html
 
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To this question I was invited to give a lecture that presented my hypothetical response to the international congress of the history of science, Moscow, August 18–24, 1971. (Hypothesis on the Motivation of Scientific Creativity. “Nauka” Publishing House, Moscow, pp. 224–233).
 
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Metadata
Title
Identity Economics, Indeed? A Psychological Introduction
Author
Laszlo Garai
Copyright Year
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52561-1_1