Thomas Hobbes

Systems in Crisis - We Need a New Social Contract

Alastair Roderick | Posted 16.10.2011 | UK Politics
Alastair Roderick

Much of the analysis of the British riots is premised on trying to understand how a system of incentives and disincentives could break down so quickly. It seems just as logical to ask the opposite: why did we ever assume the equilibrium being promoted was one of peace, order and rationality?