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Assisting the Invisible Hand

Contested Relations Between Market, State and Civil Society

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Authors:
  1. Wim Dubbink

    1. Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Issues in Business Ethics (IBET, volume 18)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Wim Dubbink
    Pages 1-22

  3. Economic Theory

    • Wim Dubbink
    Pages 23-73

  4. Administrative Theory

    • Wim Dubbink
    Pages 75-131

  5. Political Philosophy

    • Wim Dubbink
    Pages 133-171

  6. State, Market and Civil Society in a New Configuration

    • Wim Dubbink
    Pages 173-201

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 203-229
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About this book

Modern liberal democracies are troubled by public problems in which the free market is no innocent bystander. It is therefore generally acknowledged that the market must be controlled. Assisting the Invisible Hand is an investigation into contemporary thinking on controlling the market, especially with regard to the problem of dealing with environmental issues. The implicit modes of thinking in economics, political philosophy and administrative theory are uncovered and criticized. The book contributes to contemporary insight by arguing that the issue of market control must be addressed in terms of the relations between state, market and civil society. Furthermore, since controlling the market is so closely related to the ideals of liberal democracy, this book stresses the normative dimensions of the market control issue. The position adopted by the book is that the market cannot be controlled by the state alone. This responsibility should be shared between state, market and civil society.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Wim Dubbink

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Assisting the Invisible Hand

  • Book Subtitle: Contested Relations Between Market, State and Civil Society

  • Authors: Wim Dubbink

  • Series Title: Issues in Business Ethics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0797-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1444-4Published: 30 September 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6353-3Published: 30 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0797-8Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0925-6733

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1680

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 229

  • Topics: Ethics, Philosophy, general, Environmental Management, Environmental Economics, Management

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