The State of State: Invisible Hands in Politics and Civil SocietyRoutledge, 8. 9. 2017 - Počet stran: 240 One of the most astonishing features of social, economic, and political life is that large-scale patterns, structures, and behavioral regularities sometimes develop without anyone intentionally planning their occurrence, or without anyone deliberately working to bring them about. They evolve as a specific kind of unintended consequence of human action. They are the result of invisible hands. Building on Adam Smith's classic concept of "the invisible hand," this study presents a general approach, based on the theory of games and evolutionary theory, to explain such large-scale unintended consequences within markets, communities, and the state. This analysis by Nils Karlson is further used to explain the growth of the modern "welfare" state. It shows how an unconstrained democratic state through two distinct invisible-hand processes, the logic of conceit and the logic of opportunism, may develop into a "equilibrium" state, "The State of State." His work moves classic political economy into the world of political sociology. A normative contractual model is presented and the relative desirability of the state, markets, and communities is discussed. A major conclusion is that it is a choice between imperfect alternatives, involving decisions about more or less, rather than absolute judgments of an either/or variety. It is nevertheless suggested that society ought to be radically depoliticized and that constitutional constraints should be introduced in the universe of policy-making. |
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The Explanatory Status of InvisibleHand Processes | 24 |
Intendedly Rational Actors | 27 |
Motivational Assumptions | 31 |
PROCESSES OF SPONTANEOUS PATTERNS | 36 |
Aggregation | 39 |
BilateralInteraction Situations | 42 |
Conclusions | 111 |
Sources of Disorder | 112 |
36 The Introduction of the State | 118 |
THE EMERGENCE OF THE WELFARE STATE | 125 |
An Unconstrained Democracy | 127 |
The Relation to Earlier Research | 129 |
The Logic of Conceit | 132 |
PolicyCaused Social Problems | 139 |
MultilateralInteraction Situations | 48 |
Conclusions | 51 |
Evolutionary Selection | 52 |
Natural Selection | 55 |
Diffused Reinforcement | 60 |
The Role of the Environment | 65 |
The Critique of Functionalism | 69 |
Conclusions | 71 |
CIVIL SOCIETY | 72 |
Conventions | 76 |
Internalization | 81 |
Conclusions | 82 |
Communities and Social Norms | 83 |
Processes of Aggregation | 85 |
Selection Processes | 89 |
Conclusions | 95 |
Implications for Voluntary Organizations | 96 |
Markets and Prices | 98 |
The Market Process | 103 |
The Invisible Hands in Markets | 110 |
Social Justice | 146 |
Effects on Civil Society | 151 |
Conclusions | 154 |
The Logic of Opportunism | 155 |
Narrow Special Interests | 157 |
Myopic Decisions | 162 |
The Democratic Techniques | 165 |
Conclusions | 168 |
A Synthesis | 170 |
The State of State | 172 |
IMPERFECT ALTERNATIVES | 177 |
A Contractarian Perspective | 179 |
The State Markets or Communities? | 183 |
Prosperity | 186 |
The Position of the Weak and Unfortunate | 189 |
Democratic Values | 194 |
Conclusions | 198 |
Prospects for the Desired Changes | 199 |
REFERENCES | 206 |
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