Epilogue: from “homo oeconomicus” to “civil animal”
The important message we draw from the discussion developed throughout this book is that the awareness of the existence of both market and government failures should urgently lead us to reconsider the role of civil society, understood as the ensemble of intermediate organizations such as citizens and professional associations, non-governmental organizations, foundations, and independent public groups such as chambers of commerce, universities, and so on. By always and only talking about markets and government, it seems that economic science has ended up forgetting about civil society, which is where the conditions are created for the emergence and proper operation of both the market and the ...
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