Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior

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Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior is a monograph by the Austrian-German sociologist Helmut Schoeck. It was first published in German version as Der Neid: Eine Theorie der Gesellschaft in 1966, and first translated into English in 1969. Schoeck was a polemicist against the New Left movements of the 1960s, and used the book to criticize their ideas from a conservative-liberal viewpoint.