Reflections on Theories of Social Optimization and Their Relevance for Future City Management in Japan

ABSTRACT: The paradigm of laissez-faire economy presumes that economic agents know efficient loci for input-output combinations and rationally act in the market by following their subjective values. Economy is efficiently organized and given dynamic forces to grow at its own risk. As a result, the g...

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Main Author: Yoshiro Higano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Urban Management
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2226585618300657