IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/inschp/978-3-031-49196-2_15.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Overcoming the Siren Song of Central Planning

In: Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy

Author

Listed:
  • David C. Rose

    (University of Missouri-St. Louis
    Common Sense Society)

Abstract

The concepts of state entrepreneurship and mission economy are the latest attempts to justify greater central planning despite the explosion of human flourishing in free market societies over the last few centuries. This is a puzzle. Why do we keep falling for this old wine in new bottles? I argue that our genes predispose us to be too skeptical about having faith in complex and evolving systems involving large numbers of people. This is because we fail to recognize that there are two different ways to control evolution. I then briefly discuss how moral beliefs might overcome this predisposition.

Suggested Citation

  • David C. Rose, 2024. "Overcoming the Siren Song of Central Planning," International Studies in Entrepreneurship, in: Magnus Henrekson & Christian Sandström & Mikael Stenkula (ed.), Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy, pages 271-288, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-3-031-49196-2_15
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-49196-2_15
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:inschp:978-3-031-49196-2_15. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.