It sounds like an important book. But the quoted passages do raise a problem, a classical one: What needs to be explained is The Myth, but instead it is offered as an explanation.
Where did The Myth come from? What are its historical origins? Myths do not drop from the sky. Carrol > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Devine > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 10:02 AM > To: Pen-l > Subject: [Pen-l] as should be obvious.... > > >> There is no 'neutral' or 'free' position: the market is regulated one way > or the other. And in either case, there will be economic consequences, > concrete distributions of wealth.. The question, at the end of the day, is not > whether to favor 'freedom' or 'constraint'-in both cases, we are both freely > and coercively imposing a legal regime with or without options. The question > instead is to determine exactly who benefits and by how much, and more > importantly, to assess politically and normatively the justice of those > outcomes. > > >> It is precisely that normative assessment that is prevented by faith in > natural order and market efficiency. So long as the distributional > consequences are viewed as the natural outcome of a natural order, they > become far more normal and necessary. Their assessment becomes > practically futile, or at least beside the point, for it makes little sense to > challenge the justice or appropriateness of such natural outcomes. It is only > when we let go of the illusion of natural order that we truly open the door to > a full and robust political assessment of those distributional consequences- > as well as of the politically and socially produced norms and rules that > regulate markets and shape those outcomes.<< > > -- Barnard Harcourt, The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the > Myth of Natural Order > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your > own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
