What Happens to People in a Competitive Society An Anthropological Investigation of Competition /

• Main Author: Thorbjørnsen, Svein Olaf (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Ethnology.; Social sciences-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Economics.; Management science.; Social Anthropology.; Moral Philosophy.; Social Philosophy.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Economics, general.

In this book, author Svein Olaf Thorbjørnsen probes the question: What is at stake for human beings in a society dominated by competition, particularly economic competition? Is competition endemic to human nature? Does it preserve the dignity and intrinsic value of the human being? Does it secure be...