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| Conflitto sociale e incomparabilità dei beni |
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Titolo Rivista:
PARTECIPAZIONE E CONFLITTO |
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Autori/Curatori:
Nicolò Bellanca |
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Anno di pubblicazione:
2009
Fascicolo: 3 |
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N. pagine:
24
Dimensione del file: 127 Kb. |
Presentazione:
Social Conflict and Incomparability of Goods - According to mainstream economics, rational agents choose between alternatives that aree supposed to be ranked and compared. This assumption is strongly criticized by sociologists and anthropologists; it may partly hold true only when the commercial transactions sphere establishes a uniform measure: money. But what happens when a community compares social goods supplied by different institutional spheres? The rigorous equalization of any rate of exchange is replaced by a system of conventional equivalences. This system is temporary, since it changes as collective beliefs evolve; it is conflictual, because the rates of conversion between social goods often express relations of power among the groups themselves; and finally it is unstable, because individuals tend to develop private rates of conversion that aree different from the collective ones. This system, despite its fragility, is a crucial tool of reproduction of a complex society. This essay discusses and analyzes some aspects of the issue.
Keywords: Incomparability, Rational Choice, Money, Conflict, Participation. |
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