The economy of privacy: Institutional design in the economy of esteem

Monist

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-51

  Brennan, Geoffrey ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 61049320750     PISSN: 00269662     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/monist200891111     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Philip Pettit, "The Cunning of Trust," Philosophy and Public Affairs, 24 (1995) 202-25
2. The term-and the analysis-come from D. T. Miller and D. A. Prentice, "Collective Errors and Errors about the Collective," Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 20 (1994), 541-50
3. See D. A. Prentice and D. T. Miller, "Pluralistic Ignorance and Alcohol Use on Campus," Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64 (1993), 243-56
4. Michael Wenzel, Misperceptions about Social Norms about Tax Compliance (Canberra, Australia: Center for Tax System Integrity, Australian National University, 2001)
5. It is perhaps worth noting that Adam Smith makes a similar argument in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, but Smith thinks that the effects are good because the desire for esteem rouses men "out of the sloth which is their natural condition." Smith also thinks that the increased market activity thereby generated is subject to "increasing returns" and thereby generates increased overall prosperity. Wealth of Nations, Book I chs. 1-3
6. In another place I have developed a treatment of "self-esteem" using an approach involving the conceptual and analytic apparatus developed for social esteem. I consider that approach "interesting," though for reasons that are obvious enough and are explored in that other paper, such self-evaluations are not necessarily to be taken as authoritative. See Brennan, "Self-Esteem" (mimeo, 2007)
7. See Geoffrey Brennan "Selection and the Currency of Reward," in Robert Goodin (ed.) The Theory of Institutional Design (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) for an extended discussion
8. Of whom Bruno Frey, Not Just for the Money (Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, 1997)
9. A. O. Hirschman, "Against Parsimony," Economics and Philosophy, 1 (1985), 7-21 are among the more estimable