ENS Conf B. Harcourt: Présentation et discussion de son nouveau livre: "The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order", Paris, 9 mars 2011

Ecole normale supérieure
Conférence

Bernard Harcourt
Professeur à l'Université de Chicago
Présentation et discussion de son nouveau livre: The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

Harvard University Press, 2011
 
Paris
 le mercredi 9 mars 2011 (17h-19h)
 

avec

• Laurent Bonelli (Groupe d'Analyse Politique, Université Paris X)
• Claire Lemercier (Centre de sociologie des organisations, CNRS)
• David Spector (Paris School of Economics, CNRS)

Présentation ouvrage

The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard 2011)

 

It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and punishing. The result, in the United States, has been an incendiary combination of laissez faire and mass incarceration. Today, the United States incarcerates over one percent of its adult population, the highest number and rate in the world. In this book, Bernard Harcourt traces the birth of the idea of natural orderliness in economic thought and its gradual evolution into today's myth of the free market, and explores how it has produced the largest government-run penal sphere on the globe.
 

Bernard E. Harcourt is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several other books, including  Illusion of Order (Harvard 2001), Language of the Gun (Chicago 2005), and Against Prediction (Chicago 2007).

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