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Avner Offer (1944–)
- Abstract:
- Avner Offer’s work includes the history of property politics in England before the Great War; the impact of the international food economy on politics and strategy in Britain, the British Empire and Germany before and during that War; analysis of the experience of affluence and its impact on social mores and well-being in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1950; and a study of abstract economic theory and its influence on political ideologies and economic organisation in the West since the late 1960s. In his model building, he sees motivation through the lens of a quest for self-esteem and approbation and views institutions as devices to control and constrain commitment across time. Much of his work can be read as a defence of social democracy, and an analysis of how welfare can be destroyed by political and economic calculations inducing inequality and conflict.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 376.9KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/978-3-030-58471-9_25
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Host title:
- The Palgrave Companion to Oxford Economics
- Pages:
- 623-644
- Chapter number:
- 25
- Place of publication:
- Cham, Switzerland
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-17
- Edition:
- 1st
- DOI:
- EISBN:
- 9783030-584719
- ISBN:
- 9783030584702
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1125866
- Local pid:
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pubs:1125866
- Deposit date:
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2020-08-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Joshua Getzler
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Springer at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58471-9_25
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