The Economy of Esteem
Subtitle: An Essay on Civil and Political Society
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 20, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780199246489
First sentence: The word 'esteem', like the Latin root 'estimare', can mean either to estimate or to estimate positively, whereas its opposite 'disesteem', like the Latin 'disestimare', can only mean to estimate negatively.