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I know that my title might sound strange as the title for the introduction to a book whose subject is identity economics. However, this book approaches social identity from the perspective of economic psychology; at the time that it produced its American incarnation, psychology was all about behavioral psychology.
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In an essay in the interdisciplinary jurnal of Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) I reported how Szentagothai, the president of that academy, was humiliated by the opinion leader of the scholars in the Institute of Psychology of HAS after J. Szentagothai delivered a lecture on his brain model Magyar Tudomány [Hungarian Science] “Az interdiszciplinaritásról és halmozott hátrányairól” [The interdisciplinarity and its cumulative handicap] 1999/ 3. [in Hungarian] http://epa.oszk.hu/00700/00775/00003/1999_03_12.html
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Garai, L. (2017). Identity Economics, Indeed? A Psychological Introduction. In: Reconsidering Identity Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52561-1_1
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