Robert Lane

Yale University | YU · Department of Political Science

This manuscript is an analysis of how markets shape and misshape the human personality. It is framed as a four-person argument on the way society, especially markets, influence consciousness, cognition, and emotions. The participants are: Dessie, the political science protagonist named after Desiderius Erasmus, Adam, an economist, Hypatia, a philos...

This manuscript is an analysis of how markets shape and misshape the human personality. It is framed as a four-person argument on the way society, especially markets, influence consciousness, cognition, and emotions. The participants are: Dessie, the political science protagonist named after Desiderius Erasmus, Adam, an economist, Hypatia, a philos...

"Robert E. Lane is one of the most prominent and distinguished critics of both the human impact of market economies and economic theory, arguing from much research that happiness is more likely to flow from companionship, enjoyment of work, contribution to society, and the opportunity to develop as a person, than from the pursuit of wealth and the...

People are excused from moral blame for the harm they are said to have caused if they could not have done otherwise. Such excuses rely on causal explanations deriving mostly from social and biological sciences whose paradigms are probabilistic, disjunctive, and combine dispositional and circumstantial factors according to the variance accounted for...

Starting with a brief review of why all post-industrial societies tend to be inegalitarian, this paper develops two main themes: (1) how the idea that people are individually responsible for their own fates reduces poverty but impedes redistribution, and (2) how both the loose ties of individuals to their societies and the selective nature of their...

The defense of capitalism in America is rooted in a preference for the market's justice of earned deserts over the justices of equality and need associated with the polity. These preferences have structural roots in the way governments and markets serve different values and purposes, satisfy wants, focus on fairness or justice, enlist causal attrib...

Robert E. Lane : Adolescent political maturation in the United States and in Germany. On the basis of data from national sample surveys in the United States and Germany, the author constructs a typology of family Influence in adolescence: (1) influentials, (2) rebels, (3) submissives. There are proportionately more Influentials and Rebels in the Un...

Marx is surely right when he says that the way men earn their living shapes their relations to each other and to the state; but this is, of course, only the beginning. Aside from all the other non-economic factors which also have these effects, there is the matter of the source of income, the level of income, and, especially, the security of income...

As a city is a collective body, and, like other wholes, composed of many parts, it is evident our first inquiry must be, what a citizen is: for a city is a certain number of citizens…. For he who has a right to share in the judicial and executive part of government in any city, him we call a citizen of that place; and a city, in one word, is a coll...

We move in equalitarian directions; the distribution of income flattens out; the floor beneath the poorest paid and least secure is raised and made more substantial. Since the demise of Newport and Tuxedo Park, the very rich have shunned ostentatious display. The equality of opportunity, the chance to rise in the world is at least as great today as...

Elite Communication and the Governmental Process: Samoa and the United States - Volume 10 Issue 3 - Robert E. Lane