"In 'The Social Meanings of Money and Property' Kenneth O. Doyle
has produced an intriguing study that lays the groundwork for
understanding the role played by money and property among
individuals, groups and even nationalities. The toughminded/tender
minded dichotomy presented in The Social Meanings of Money and
Property can also be viewed as the Conservative/Liberal conflict.
Conservatives demand self-reliance and Liberals crave nurture. The
Social Meanings of Money and Property is first a psychological
treatise, second it is a stimulant for complex thought." -W.J.
Rayment, Conservativebookstore.com "A most important study... in
the grand style of a Joseph Schumpeter.... [It] will reward both
the expert and the general reader." -Matthew Lamb, Boston College
"Kenneth O. Doyle's book, The Social Meanings of Money and
Property, is one of the most wide-ranging and scholarly books I
have ever read. . . .The comprehensiveness of the scholarship Doyle
amasses will undoubtedly stimulate scholars from a variety of
disciplines to test out the implications of the model." -Wilbert J.
McKeachie, University of Michigan Why would a man with more money
than he could ever spend risk career, family, and freedom for a
modest increase in net worth? Why would a woman who never cared at
all about investments perjure herself for a better divorce
settlement? Why do people of some cultures seem inclined toward
economic success? What are the fundamental differences between
conservatives and liberals, or capitalists and socialists? Is there
any hope of rapprochement between Economic Man and Psychological
Man? In this book, Professor Kenneth O. Doyle spells out a
theoretical system for understanding these practical, everyday
problems, using a conceptual framework for studying the social
meanings of money and property. He finds fundamental meaning in the
concept of talisman. We use money and property, he proposes, to
protect ourselves from fears characteristic of our personalities:
the fear of incompetence, the fear of abandonment, the fear of
disarray, and the fear of constraint. The Social Meanings of Money
and Property will be of interest to scholars and students across a
number of disciplines, including, but by no means limited to,
psychology, sociology, and economics.
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