1st Edition

The State of State Invisible Hands in Politics and Civil Society

By Nils Karlson Copyright 2002
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

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.... Read more
1: The Invisible Hand; 2: Processes of Spontaneous Patterns; 3: Civil Society; 4: The Emergence of The “Welfare” State; 5: Imperfect Alternatives

Biography

Nils Karlson