SOSC 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Robert Heilbroner, John Maynard Keynes, Intellectual Freedom
13 Jun 2013
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As a ruling principle, people are obedient to the ways from time immemorial. Heilbroner describes outline this form of society because they are hunters and gatherers that train their labourers as a form of socialization. He further highlights that these societies are primitive and are sleepwalk[ing] through history (heilbroner, 18). Order of society is derived from a higher power that organizes and solves problems of productions and distribution through enforcement and coercion of its people. Unlike traditional, command requires the coercion as an enforcement mechanism because of the lack of internalized pressures of socialization. Organized production and distribution based on a laissez-faire paradigm that everyone does as they please in the interests of the market. The dynamism (continuous growth and change) of the market economy, controlled by constant forces of change in the interests of the market, gives this form the title of economics. Example: western civilization capitalism (powerful tendencies towards change: industrial revolution, mass production of steel, electrification, automobile.
