This article examines the term ‘relational goods’ as defined by the American economist Carole J. Uhlaner, and how this term may be used to express a link between economy and psychology. The conflict between quality and quantity is discussed, and how this conflict relates to psychological disciplines, especially in terms of cost effectiveness in psychological treatments, and with reference to works of the great philosophers as well as those in our own discipline.
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