addition to ridicule the naive belief that free trade can lead to harmony, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche also identified a new element add to barter and innovation that distinguishes thehuman beings from the rest of the animal kingdom, humans are the only animals capable of making and keeping promises. This concept raises the need of institutions, rules and routines, laws and regulations, incentives and penalties, whether expectations that a society agrees to share or formal rules backed retaliation for those who do not submit to them. The market itself is actually an institution of this kind, which is allowed to operate but is restricted by a number of formal and informal rules. However, in the modern economy such institutions are often taken for granted. After the writings of Francis Bacon in the early seventeenth century authors echo treaty1840. The British government, in order to provide cheap bread to its factory workers, failed to protect their own agriculture with tariffs and also tried to induce other countries to stop protecting their industry. It was believed that the growing social inequalities-which for a century was called the "social question" - would disappear as soon as they eliminate all restrictions on the economy. In the end, however, that this created was a greater conflict. The modern welfare state was built brick by brick from the chaos. Germany took the initiative, a group of economistsC as well as socialism. "That's the kind of economic theory that has virtually disappeared.
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