Expert Failure

ISBN-13: 9781316503041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 290 str.

Roger Koppl

Opis

Roger Koppl develops a theory of experts and expert failure, and illustrates his theory with wide-ranging examples, including that of state regulation of economic activity.

Recenzje

'In Expert Failure, Roger Koppl has written a commanding synoptic and authoritative book on the fundamental problem of 'experts', when knowledge is not uniformly distributed. Koppl argues for polyarchy over hierarchy, covering an enormous range from Socrates, to the administrative state, to the tacit knowledge in the economy and the dangers of the 'entangled deep state'. Read this book.' Stuart Kauffman, FRSC, Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. Nature and History of the Problem: 2. Is there a literature on experts?; 3. Two historical episodes in the problem of experts; 4. Recurrent themes in the theory of experts; Part II. Foundations of the Theory of Experts: 5. Notes on some economic terms and ideas; 6. The division of knowledge through Mandeville; 7. The division of Knowledge after Mandeville; 8. The supply and demand for expert opinion; 9. Experts and their ecology; Part III. Expert Failure: 10. Expert failure and market structure; 11. Further sources of expert failure; 12. Expert failure in the entangled deep state.