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Lawson, T.

The Human Person, the Human Social Individual and Community Interactions

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Vol. 47(3) pp. 475–506 (2023)

Abstract: An account of the nature of human community organising structures has been systemised as social positioning theory. Here I explore the sorts of human entities that are able successfully to draw on and make use of community structures of the form portrayed in the theory, focussing especially on the sorts of human community interactions that are facilitated.

Keywords: Social positioning, Community interactions, Social relations, Community components, Human person, First person perspective, Disposition to care, Multicomponent

JEL Codes: A10, B00, B10, B20, B30, B40, B50, N00, P00, P10

Author links: Tony Lawson  

Publisher's Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bead016



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