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Keeping up with the Joneses: The Desire of the Desire for money
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2006
Abstract
The biological basis of money lies in a three-term relationship between one subject and some others, with money acting as a mediator. The drive to acquire money is a special case of a desire for recognition. What is aimed at by subjects is their desire for the desire of some others: the former derive satisfaction from representing to themselves the admiration, or envy, of these others. This raises reproductive advantage.
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