Economic and Political Solutions to Social Problems: The Case of Second-hand Smoke in Enclosed Public Places

Meadowcroft, John

doi:10.1080/09538259.2011.561559

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“…Those claims are made notwithstanding practical illustrations of more pluralistic alternatives that might allow the relevant costs to be internalized at a relatively decentralized level. In the case of smoking, for example, a Hayekian mosaic of competing voluntary governance measures was practiced by many employers, restaurants and drinking establishments that allowed people to select between more- or- less restrictive approaches to the interpersonal conflicts that surround the use of tobacco—but they have since been swept away by more centralized and disciplinary governance regimes that often ban smoking in all public places (Meadowcroft, 2011 ).…”

Section: Public Health and The Road To Serfdom: The Viral Dispositifmentioning

confidence: 99%

Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom

Pennington

2021

Public Choice

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This paper draws on the work of Michel Foucault and Friedrich Hayek to understand threats to personal and enterprise freedom, arising from public health governance. Whereas public choice theory examines the incentives these institutions provide to agents, the analysis here understands those incentives as framed by discursive social constructions that affect the identity, power, and positionality of different actors. It shows how overlapping discourses of scientific rationalism may generate a ‘road to serfdom’ narrowing freedom of action and expression across an expanding terrain. As such, the paper contributes to the growing literature emphasising the importance of narratives, stories and metaphors as shaping political economic action in ways feeding through to outcomes and institutions.

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Section: Public Health and The Road To Serfdom: The Viral Dispositifmentioning

confidence: 99%