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"…kis pénz → kis foci"? Egy gazdaságpszichológia megalapozása. [Foundation of an economic psychology] Edition of the Hungarian Economic Society, Budapest, 1990; p. 158. |
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The
monograph outlines a theory according to which the economic psychology has
emerged because of the classic capitalist socio-economic system's radical transformation
(Schumpeter). That 19th century system produced the material factors
it depended on and made itself independent of the human phenomena
which had not been produced by it. On the other hand, from the turn of
the century onwards running the socio-economic system was no longer
independent of the faculties and needs effective in the
population and, consequently, it faced the necessity of manufacturing also
its own personal conditions. The economic psychology emerged as a science of
the psychologic phenomena turned into economic factors in these
societies. The author considers that the necessity of producing human
resources at the cost of consuming material resources has radically
transformed the socio-economic system, whether what he labels as post-capitalism
was actually of market, planned or mixed character. The monograph
makes a distinction between two kinds of psychologic phenomena turned into
economic factors: technical dispositions of mastering things' attributes
and social dispositions of mastering persons' relations. It states
that unlike the material production depending only on technical attributes of
both producing and produced factors, the modern human production is
determined also by the factors' social relations. These are substantialized
by the economic agents' territorial behaviour based on property distribution
and establishing their social categorization, the paradoxical logic of this
categorisation, the symbolization of this latter's ideal acts by real
economic acts. The totality of this means produces the economic agents' social
identity considered as the main psychological mediator of economic
processes: it determines who from among the agents of an economic activity
turn out to be its principals. From the point of view of the necessity of
human and not only material production are analyzed various forms of
post-capitalist socio-economic systems. The fascist type totalitarian
societies are claimed to directly apply the strategies of the 19th century
large scale material processing industry in establishing a large scale human
processing industry that dealt with both producing and produced people mostly
in terms of technical attributes. The contemporary bureaucratized societies
administer social relations but exclusively those of producing and not of
produced people. A large scale human industry processing social relations and
not only technical attributes of both producing and produced people was
established by the Bolshevik type totalitarian societies. The main conclusion
of the monograph is that after the perishing of all these concret shapes of
the post-capitalism the post-capitalist trend of consuming material resources
not exclusively for their own enlarged reproduction but to an increasing
extent for producing human resources remains the main tendency of the
modernization. — Chapters of the monograph are published in English as Determining economic activity, Economic rationality, Foundation and Consumption; an English translation of
other chapters is available (® Bureaucratic control and Bolshevik-type system). Key
words: social identity; form
vs matter; economic psychology; human resources processing; post-capitalist
socio-economic system; psycho-social structuring and functioning of
totalitarian societies |