People Have A Hard Time Accepting Free-market Economics For The Same Reason They Have A Hard Time Accepting Evolution: It Is Counterintuitive. Life Looks Intelligently Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That There Must Be An Intelligent Designer--a God. Similarly, The Economy Looks Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That We Need A Designer--a Government. In Fact, Emergence And Complexity Theory Explains How The Principles Of Self-organization And Emergence Cause Complex Systems To Arise From Simple Systems Without A Top-down Designer.
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People Have A Hard Time Accepting Free-market
Michael Shermer
People Have A Hard Time Accepting Free-market Economics For The Same Reason They Have A Hard Time Accepting Evolution: It Is Counterintuitive. Life Looks Intelligently Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That There Must Be An Intelligent Designer--a God. Similarly, The Economy Looks Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That We Need A Designer--a Government. In Fact, Emergence And Complexity Theory Explains How The Principles Of Self-organization And Emergence Cause Complex Systems To Arise From Simple Systems Without A Top-down Designer.
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