Self-Regulation and Human Progress: How Society Gains When We Govern Less - Couverture rigide

Osborne, Evan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804796440 ISBN 13 : 9780804796446

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit. Less known is the fact that this theory arose after arguments for the scientific method and freedom of speech had gone mainstream--and that all three share a common basis.

Proponents of self-regulation in the realm of free speech have argued that unhindered public expression causes true ideas to gain strength through scrutiny. Similarly, scientific inquiry has been regarded as a self-correcting system, one in which competing hypotheses are verified by multiple independent researchers. It was long thought that society was better left to organize itself through free markets as opposed to political institutions. But, over the twentieth century, we became less confident in the notion of a self-regulating socioeconomy. Evan Osborne traces the rise and fall of this once-popular concept. He argues that--as society becomes more complex--self-regulation becomes more efficient and can once again serve our economy well.

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À propos de l'auteur

Evan Osborne is Professor of Economics at Wright State University. He is the author of Reasonably Simple Economics: Why the World Works the Way it Does (2013) and The Rise of the Anti-Corporate Movement: Corporations and the People Who Hate Them (2007).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804796440
• ISBN 13: 9780804796446
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
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