Libidinal economy

Fourier's researches began with the 'much-despised' problem of 'agricultural association'. How could three hundred families of differing degrees of wealth be brought together to form a 'NATURAL or ATTRACTIVE association', 'a society whose members would be driven to work by competition, self-esteem and other stimuli compatible with self-interest'? Fourier's disarmingly simple answer was: 'by the lure of wealth and pleasures ... passions common to everybody' and he likened it to the discovery of the compass. 24 The passions were to provide the lodestar of the new 'social science', just as the compass guided the helmsman.
Libidinal; Economy, Passionate attraction
Fourier
Category:Economics