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The illusion of free markets : punishment and the myth of natural order
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ISBN: 9780674057265 0674057260 0674066162 0674059360 9780674066168 9780674059368 0674971329 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,

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It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and the punishment arena. This curious incendiary combination of free market efficiency and the Big Brother state has become seemingly obvious, but it hinges on the illusion of a supposedly natural order in the economic realm. This work argues that our faith in "free markets" has severely distorted American politics and punishment practices. The author traces the birth of the idea of natural order to eighteenth century economic thought and reveals its gradual evolution through the Chicago School of economics and ultimately into today's myth of the free market. The modern category of "liberty" emerged in reaction to an earlier, integrated vision of punishment and public economy, known in the eighteenth century as "police." This development shaped the dominant belief today that competitive markets are inherently efficient and should be sharply demarcated from a government run penal sphere. ThIs modern vision rests on a simple but devastating illusion. Superimposing the political categories of "freedom" or "discipline" on forms of market organization has the unfortunate effect of obscuring rather than enlightening. It obscures by making both the free market and the prison system seem natural and necessary. In the process, it facilitated the birth of the penitentiary system in the nineteenth century and its ultimate culmination into mass incarceration today.

The politics of regulation : institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance
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ISBN: 1843764644 1845422171 9781843764649 9781845422172 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cheltenham Elgar

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Federation de russie: quel environnement pour l'investissement?
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ISBN: 9264286500 9264292578 Year: 2001 Publisher: Paris Ocde

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Regulation and development
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ISBN: 052184018X 9780521840187 0521549485 9780521549486 9781139163392 9781139190466 1139190466 9781139185561 113918556X 1139163396 9781139187879 1139187872 1107195489 9781107195486 1283378159 9781283378154 9786613378156 6613378151 1139189158 9781139189156 1139183249 9781139183246 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In Regulation and Development Jean-Jacques Laffont provides the first theoretical analysis of regulation of public services for developing countries. He shows how the debate between price-cap regulation and cost of service regulation is affected by the characteristics of less developed countries (LDCs) and offers a positive theory of privatization that stresses the role of corruption. He develops a new theory of regulation with limited enforcement capabilities and discusses the delicate issue of access pricing in view of LDC's specificities. In the final chapter he proposes a theory of separation of powers which reveals one of the many vicious circles of underdevelopment made explicit by the economics of information. Based on organization theory and history, and using simple empirical tests wherever possible, Professor Laffont offers a comprehensive evaluation of the different ways to organize the regulatory institutions and opens up a rich new research agenda for development studies.


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La paperasserie vue par les entreprises : les charges administratives et réglementaires des petites et moyennes entreprises
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ISBN: 9264287167 9264293469 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris OCDE

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