A Starter on Support-Bargaining and Money-Bargaining in Twenty-Eight Digestible Bites

This book provides an introduction to the theory of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. Support-bargaining arises from the propensity of all individuals to seek the support of those around them and is the underlying mechanism of democratic societies. It is also the underlying mechanism of theory formation. Intellectual support-bargaining is the process by which support is assembled for ideas and theories.

Mainstream economic theory, or ‘neoclassical theory’, can be seen as formulated ...