Politics and the Theory of Spontaneous Order

ISBN-13: 9780367897109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 168 str.

Piotr Szafruga

Opis

The theory of spontaneous order conceptualizes and explains a number of institutional and social phenomena that are not an intended effect of either individual decisions or a collective consensus but an unplanned outcome of interactions between people pursuing their own aims.

Spis treści

Part I: The idea of spontaneous order in the history of the social sciences  1. The idea of spontaneous order in reflection on the nature of the social world  2. History of the idea of spontaneous order  Part II: The theory of spontaneous order  3. Epistemological foundations of the theory of spontaneous order  4. Spontaneous order  Part III: Application of the theory of spontaneous order in political science  5. Political science and the theory of spontaneous order  6. The theory of spontaneous order versus public choice theory  7. Limits of planning  8. Fragile states  Part IV: Criticism and limitations of the theory of spontaneous order  9. Limitations of the theory of spontaneous order  10. The structure of human cognition

O autorze

Piotr Szafruga holds a PhD in political science from the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University, Poland.