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Ralph Raico
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Humans are prone to envy , writes Helmut Schoeck in Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior. Humans try to set up a society in which none is envious of another. George Stigler of the Chicago School saw man as always a utility maximizer. Robert Higgs disagreed with Stigler’s position. Higgs presents that the kind of person one becomes confirms a