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Félicitations Julien! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I thank @economicsethics.Bsky.social for recommending Landa’s work and Landa’s 2009 book that was published also in German. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Also in the current context of fashism the work of the historian Ishay Landa is very interesting on individualization in liberalism and in fascism. Very extensive study on the links between fascism and classic liberalism.

This focus on the role of individualisation I have not seen a lot so far in the history of economics. But as economists have often been active fore speakers for certain types of individualization, I find their book super inspiring. (For example the focus on incentives for individual responsibility)

… (public administrations, public discourse, etc…) render its constituant people as “individuals”. On top of that there their book links to many connected works of interest to economists in the sociology and philosophy literature (often in German).

Not only do Amlinger and Nachtwey provide a neat introduction to some of the thinkers of the Frankfurt school of Critical theory (Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and others), it also illustrates that it matters to think about how societies …

🔎 See also a symposium (in English) on Spencer's Banzhaf last book, Pricing the Priceless, about the history of Environmental Economics