"This book discusses key issues in economic policy in the context of the history of economic thought. Most of the current and past academic controversies in economics are, explicitly or implicitly, centered around the application and form of economic policy. This is particularly evident in the...

1. Social comparisons in other social sciences -- 2. Social comparisons in pre-classical and classical economic thought -- 3. The marginalization of social comparisons -- 4. The reappearance of social comparisons -- 5. Social comparisons in microeconomics -- 6. Social comparisons : welfare,...