Rustichini, Aldo - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 6 (2008) 2-3, pp. 647-656
We propose and test two possible explanations of envy and its opposite, gloating. One explanation views them as a learning process, just as regret and rejoice are in the private domain:envy is the social correspondent of regret. The other explanation traces envy back to the natural tendency of...