COMPLEXITY AND THE ART OF PUBLIC POLICY

David Colander and Roland Kupers describe how economists and society became locked into the current policy framework, and lay out fr esh alternatives for framing policy questions. Offering original solutions to stubborn problems, the complexity narrative builds on broader philosophical traditions, such as those in the work of John Stuart Mill, to suggest initiatives that the authors call activ ist laissez-faire policies. Colander and Kupers develop innovative bottom-up solutions that, through new institutional structures s uch as for-...[Read more]