Voluntary versus coercive orders /

Voluntary versus coercive orders /

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Imprint:	Aldershot : Avebury, 1997-
Description:	xii, 526 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Voluntary versus coercive orders; v.3 Avebury series in philosophy Avebury series in philosophy.
Subject:	Values. Social values. Ethics. Social structure. Social justice. Ethics. Social justice. Social structure. Social values. Values.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2709386

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Other authors / contributors:	Radnitzky, Gerard.
ISBN:	1859723993 9781859723999
Notes:	This volume grew out of conversations, correspondence, meetings, and from a preparatory colloquium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1995; main meeting in Seoul, Korea, Aug. 1995. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Friends of the free society judge a social order by whether or not it promotes personal liberty. This volume-the third in the series Values and the Social Order-distinquishes between voluntary orders, like the market, and coercive orders, like the state, and examines the thesis that the market order based on private property, the choice example of a spontaneous and voluntary order, is prior to the state. Property breeds order, not the other way round; order is not created by law. The nature of law has a feedback effect on the means required for its enforcement: convention and custom rely on informal and decentralized enforcement, statue law on centrally organized enforcement, with evident consequences for the resulting political and social order. Increasingly mobile sources of wealth-creation and technological innovations enhance the role of market-generated institutions. The state's coercive power will shrink relatively in a world of competition. Competition is the best remedy against coercive power. We live not only in states (coercive orders), but also in an ensemble of voluntary, spontaneous orders, with international commerce as the paradigmatic example. The contributions to the volume address the various aspects of this problem cluster.

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Summary:	Friends of the free society judge a social order by whether it promotes personal liberty. This text seeks to distinguish between voluntary orders like the market and coercive orders like the state, to examine the view that private property breeds order and that the market, logically and historically, precedes the state. In recent times, coercive structures have tended to crowd out voluntary institutions. The builders of the modern welfare democracy did not intend the coercive society into which it has developed. Voluntary private law has been gradually eroded and replaced by coercive public (state) law. Convention and custom reply on benign informal decentralized enforcement, statute law on insensitive centralized political enforcement. However, increasing mobile resources of wealth-creation and technological innovation have strengthened the market and its institutions. The powers of the state will shrink as they ease escape from its coercious. We live in increasingly liberating voluntary spontaneous societies with international commerce to reinforce freedom from coercive structures.
Item Description:	This volume grew out of conversations, correspondence, meetings, and from a preparatory colloquium, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1995; main meeting in Seoul, Korea, Aug. 1995.
Physical Description:	xii, 526 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1859723993 9781859723999