Competition is deeply built into the structures of modern life. It can improve policies, products and services, but is also seen as a divisive burden that pits people against one another. This book seeks to go beyond such caricatures by advancing a new thesis about how competition came to shape our...

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1. Verfasser:	Hearn, Jonathan 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 2023
Schlagworte:	Competition / Social aspects Competition (Psychology) / Social aspects Gesellschaft Wettbewerb
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Competition is deeply built into the structures of modern life. It can improve policies, products and services, but is also seen as a divisive burden that pits people against one another. This book seeks to go beyond such caricatures by advancing a new thesis about how competition came to shape our society. Jonathan Hearn argues that competition was 'domesticated', harnessed and institutionalised across a range of institutional spheres in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Responding to crises in traditional forms of authority (hereditary, religious), the formalisation of competition in the economy, politics, and diverse new forms of knowledge creation provided a new mode for legitimating distributions of power in the emerging liberal societies. This insightful study aims to improve our ability to think critically about competition, by better understanding its integral role, for good and ill, in how liberal forms of society work
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Jan 2023)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (ix, 321 Seiten) Illustration, Diagramm
ISBN:	9781009199131
DOI:	10.1017/9781009199131