ABSTRACT
Human sciences, among which economics figures prominently, are similar to a series of sectors of concentric circles with overlapping limits. This chapter describes the image that conveys a meaning that is linked to the particular geometrical structure of concentric circles. The size and specific structure of properties present in social organization was, in fact, the “political” element that needed to be taken into account in economic analysis aimed at establishing the correct causal relationships among different kinds of social revenues and between wealth and happiness. The specific distribution of property rights in a social context determines the direction of causal links between economic factors such as profits and salaries. Thus, in economic discourse, frameworks derived from political studies are powerful tools that serve to detect the non-neutral value of the form of social institutions and establish the wide and multi-stratified bases of economic analysis.
