Max Borders, executive editor of the Free To Choose Network, explains why the metaphor of “society as machine” fails to explain how society and the economy actually work. Borders explores this idea further in this paper. Borders delivered these remarks during a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society October 26, 2009. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
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