Introduction

Ideal Minds ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Michael Trask
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Great Society ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Literary Traditions

This introductory chapter provides an overview of “neo-idealism,” which can be defined as the effort to retool features of the Kantian tradition as weapons in the struggle against a behaviorism discredited by post-sixties thinkers because it appeared to underwrite the failed policies of the Great Society. The book's basic premise is that a dramatic inflation in the value of consciousness and autonomy in the seventies accompanied a recognition of the state's refusal to safeguard such values. And this premise's central implication is that figures from different schools and literary traditions found alternatives to statism in conditions that, while not reducible to neoliberalism's free market ideal, would lend support to that ideal's consolidation. To put the point this way is to keep in view the distance between neo-idealism (the embrace of subjectivity) and neoliberalism (the embrace of the market). The space between these terms contracts and dilates depending on the positions staked out by neo-idealists. The chapter explains that neo-idealism affords more than an ideology for neoliberalism and less than a stark alternative to it.

scholarly journals Friedrich A. von Hayek e il problema della solidarietà

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-118
Author(s):  
Dario Antiseri
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Trojan Horse ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Great Society ◽  
Market Economic ◽  
The Social

In the development of science and of a democracy, competition represents the highest form of collaboration. The same applies in the free market economic system that supports political freedom and corresponds to the most secure source of extended welfare. However, Hayek warns that The «Great Society» is seriously threatened by the comeback of the social-ism’s «tribal ethic»: «the concept of ‘social justice’ has been the Trojan horse for the entrance of the totalitarism». By saying this, he does not deny the value of solidarity. The Great Society can allow itself to help those in need, and actually it must do it. Resumen. La competizione nello sviluppo della scienza e nella vita di una democrazia costituisce la piü alta forma di collaborazione, cosí come lo é nell’economia di mercato - sistema económico che sta a base delle liberta politiche e che é la fonte maggiormente sicura del piü esteso benessere. La Grande Societá, tuttavia, é seriamente minacciata - ammonisce Hayek - dalla riaffermazione dell»’etica tribale» del socialismo: «il concertó di ‘giustizia sociale’ é stato il cavallo di Troia tramite il quale ha fatto il suo ingresso il totalitarismo». Con ció Hayek non nega affatto il valore della solidarietá, in quanto la Grande Societá puó permettersi di aiutare i piü deboli e deve farlo.

Introduction

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omri Ben-Shahar ◽  
Carl E. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
American Law

This book argues that mandated disclosure as a distinctive regulatory method routinely fails to achieve its ambitious goals. Describing “mandated disclosure” as perhaps the most common and least successful regulatory technique in American law, the book explains why it fails and cannot be fixed. Mandated disclosure has been crafted to help people making unfamiliar and complex decisions while dealing with specialists ranging from lenders and doctors to vendors and the police. However, its effectiveness is hampered by a number of problems, not least of which is the “quantity question,” which comprises the “overload” problem and the “accumulation” problem. This introductory chapter discusses the reasons why mandated disclosure is appealing, including the fact that it resonates with the fundamental American principles of free market and autonomy, as well as the reasons why it can be considered a failure.

Liberalism, Unintended Orders and Evolutionism

1988 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Frankel Paul
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great Society ◽  
Individual Liberty ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
The Road ◽  
Herbert Spencer ◽  
The One

There is something gravely amiss about a liberalism based upon evolutionism, as F. A. Hayek bases his endorsement of the free, open, or ‘Great Society’. Such a society—one based upon individual liberty, autonomy, and free-market institutions —is not guaranteed by the evolutionary process, as Hayek's own indictment of twentieth-century totalitarianism in The Road to Serfdom amply demonstrated. In the first section of this paper, I explore some of the pitfalls for a liberalism grounded on evolutionary foundations: a relucance to tamper with existing institutions which borders on traditionalism; a tension between individualism and holism, the latter born of an evolutionist's concern for the survival of the group; and a relativism derived from evolutionism which seems ill-suited to a liberalism which values freedom. The last two sections of the paper examine some striking connections between Hayek's liberalism and that of William Graham Sumner and Herbert Spencer. While there are important differences between Hayek's and Sumner's positions, on the one hand, and Spencer's, on the other, all three suffer from a common problem: their liberalism sits uneasily upon evolutionary foundations.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Zuba
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Field Of Cultural Production

This introductory chapter discusses the unique trajectories of poetic careers throughout contemporary history. It briefly follows the twentieth-century poets discussed in this volume in engaging career from a variety of angles. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's influential sociology of cultural production, this chapter takes as a basic premise the idea that poets' trajectories generally lead across the field of production from a dominated position to a dominant one through the accumulation of recognition in the forms of publications, honors, and profits. This gradually intensifying alignment with the establishment comes at a cost, and a particularly significant one for poets, insofar as poetry defines “the most perfectly autonomous sector of the field of cultural production.”

Land management in the Conata Basin: a free market approach

Humanomics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-17
Author(s):  
Joseph Bahun ◽  
Walter E. Block
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Free Enterprise ◽  
Prairie Dog ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Property System ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Market Environmentalism

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the viability of free market environmentalism. This is the philosophy that has as its basic premise the view that laissez faire capitalism and concomitant private property rights, far from being an impediment to the well-functioning of the environment, are actually the last best hope for this desiderata. Design/methodology/approach – The prairie dog and the ferret are not the species usually associated with concern over endangerment. Typically, it is the whale, the elephant and the rhino that are subjected to such an analysis. The authors approach this issue through the “eyeglasses” of the economist who sees value in our free enterprise institutions. Findings – The authors found that the tragedy of the commons works in this case as it does in all other relevant venues: if land is not privately held, but rather open to all, a tragedy occurs: there is economics misallocation and a too swift use of resources compared to the optimal situation. Originality/value – The authors know of no other examination of the prairie dog and the ferret in the Conata Basin. This is an important case in point in amassing evidence of the workings of the private property system vis-à-vis the environment.

Economic Development in 2006 and the Future of the Russian Economy: The Non-Resource-Based Sector Potential (The Economic Report of All-Russia Business Union “Delovaya Rossiya”)

2007 ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
B. Titov ◽  
I. Pilipenko ◽  
A. Danilov-Danilyan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Report ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Economic ◽  
Investment Capital ◽  
Export Industries ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

The report considers how the state economic policy contributes to the national economic development in the midterm perspective. It analyzes main current economic problems of the Russian economy, i.e. low effectiveness of the social system, high dependence on export industries and natural resources, high monopolization and underdeveloped free market, as well as barriers that hinder non-recourse-based business development including high tax burden, skilled labor deficit and lack of investment capital. We propose a social-oriented market economy as the Russian economic model to achieve a sustainable economic growth in the long-term perspective. This model is based on people’s prosperity and therefore expanding domestic demand that stimulates the growth of domestic non-resource-based sector which in turn can accelerate annual GDP growth rates to 10-12%. To realize this model "Delovaya Rossiya" proposes a program that consists of a number of directions and key groups of measures covering priority national projects, tax, fiscal, monetary, innovative-industrial, trade and social policies.

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