Benedetto Gui is Professor of Economics at Università di Padova, Italy.
Robert Sugden is Professor of Economics at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.
Preface; 1. Why interpersonal relations matter for economics Benedetto Gui
and Robert Sugden; 2. From transactions to encounters: the joint generation
of relational goods and conventional values Benedetto Gui; 3.
Fellow-feeling Robert Sugden; 4. Interpersonal interaction and economic
theory: the case of public goods Nicholas Bardsley; 5. Under trusting eyes.
The response nature of trust Vittorio Pelligra; 6. Interpersonal relations
and job satisfaction: some empirical results in social and community care
services Carlo Borzaga and Sara Depedri; 7. On the possible conflict
between economic growth and social development Pier Luigi Sacco, Angelo
Antoci and Paolo Vanin; 8. The logic of good social relations
Serge-Christophe Kolm; 9. The mutual validation of ends Shaun
Hargreaves-Heap; 10. Hic sunt leones. Interpersonal relations as unexplored
territory in the tradition of economics Luigino Bruni; 11. Authority and
power in economic and sociological approaches to interpersonal relations:
from interactions to embeddedness Bernard Gazier and Isabelle This
Saint-Jean; 12. Interpersonal relations and economics: comments from a
feminist perspective Julie A. Nelson; 13. Economics and interpersonal
relations: ruling the social back in Louis Putterman; Index.
