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Conflict — The Engine of Economic Growth
Author(s) -
McEnery J. H.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1987.tb01854.x
Subject(s) - civil servant , negotiation , fallacy , socialism , competition (biology) , political economy , economics , law and economics , market economy , political science , management , neoclassical economics , law , politics , epistemology , philosophy , ecology , communism , biology
Opponents of the free market have criticised ifs ready espousal of competition between producers and consumers, and between differing interests and expectations. John McEnery, a former civil servant at the Department of trade with responsibility for co‐ordinafing negotiation, examines the centralist fallacy which allows socialism to claim that it reduces, even abolishes, conflict.