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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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