Philip Pettit was born (1945) and trained in Ireland, first at the National University (Maynooth College), where he took a BA. and M.A, and later at Queen's University, Belfast, where he took his Ph.D. He taught in University College, Dublin (1968-72, 1975-77) before holding a Research Fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1972-75) and then, in 1977, taking the Chair of Philosophy at Bradford University. He moved to the Australian National University in 1983, where he was Professor of Social and Political Theory until 2002, when he moved to Princeton University. He taught at Columbia University as a regular Visiting Professor of Philosophy from 1997 to 2001. He teaches political theory and philosophy at Princeton, where he is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics.Geoffrey Brennan trained originally as a public economist, but increasingly works in rational actor political theory. He was for ten years in the department of Public Finance at ANU, before he went to a Professorship in the Public Choice Center at Virginia Tech where he worked with Nobel Laureate James Buchanan. In 1983, he returned to the ANU to be head of the Economics Department and in 1991 became Director of the Research School of Social Sciences, a position which he held until 1997. He is currently Editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy, and President of the Public Choice Society. He currently holds a Chair in the RSSS in the Social and Political Theory Program.

Brennan and Pettit's book raises a great number of questions of both theoretical and empirical importance. Innovative and illuminating, this book is an interesting contribution to philosophically inspired social sciences.

• Introduction. Rediscovering the Economy of Esteem ; PART I. TOWARDS AN ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 1. The Nature and Attraction of Esteem ; 2. The Demand for Esteem ; 3. The Supply of Esteem ; 4. The Economy of Esteem ; PART II. WITHIN THE ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 5. A Simple Equilibrium in Performance ; 6. A More Complex Equilibrium in Performance ; 7. Multiple Equilibria and Bootstrapping Performance ; 8. Publicity and Individual Responses ; 9. Publicity and Accepted Standards ; 10. Seeking and Shunning Publicity ; 11. Voluntary Association ; 12. Involuntary Association ; PART III. EXPLOITING THE ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 13. The Intangible Hand in Profile ; 14. The Intangible Hand in Practice ; 15. Mobilising the Intangible Hand

Philip Pettit was born (1945) and trained in Ireland, first at the National University (Maynooth College), where he took a BA. and M.A, and later at Queen's University, Belfast, where he took his Ph.D. He taught in University College, Dublin (1968-72, 1975-77) before holding a Research Fellowship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (1972-75) and then, in 1977, taking the Chair of Philosophy at Bradford University. He moved to the Australian National University in 1983, where he was Professor of Social and Political Theory until 2002, when he moved to Princeton University. He taught at Columbia University as a regular Visiting Professor of Philosophy from 1997 to 2001. He teaches political theory and philosophy at Princeton, where he is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics.Geoffrey Brennan trained originally as a public economist, but increasingly works in rational actor political theory. He was for ten years in the department of Public Finance at ANU, before he went to a Professorship in the Public Choice Center at Virginia Tech where he worked with Nobel Laureate James Buchanan. In 1983, he returned to the ANU to be head of the Economics Department and in 1991 became Director of the Research School of Social Sciences, a position which he held until 1997. He is currently Editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy, and President of the Public Choice Society. He currently holds a Chair in the RSSS in the Social and Political Theory Program.

Brennan and Pettit's book raises a great number of questions of both theoretical and empirical importance. Innovative and illuminating, this book is an interesting contribution to philosophically inspired social sciences.

• Introduction. Rediscovering the Economy of Esteem ; PART I. TOWARDS AN ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 1. The Nature and Attraction of Esteem ; 2. The Demand for Esteem ; 3. The Supply of Esteem ; 4. The Economy of Esteem ; PART II. WITHIN THE ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 5. A Simple Equilibrium in Performance ; 6. A More Complex Equilibrium in Performance ; 7. Multiple Equilibria and Bootstrapping Performance ; 8. Publicity and Individual Responses ; 9. Publicity and Accepted Standards ; 10. Seeking and Shunning Publicity ; 11. Voluntary Association ; 12. Involuntary Association ; PART III. EXPLOITING THE ECONOMICS OF ESTEEM ; 13. The Intangible Hand in Profile ; 14. The Intangible Hand in Practice ; 15. Mobilising the Intangible Hand