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      Foucault and Hayek on public health and the road to serfdom

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      Public Choice
      Springer US
      Foucault, Hayek, Public health, Social constructionism, Narrative political economy, B00, B50, B53, B55

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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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                Contributors
                mark.pennington@kcl.ac.uk
                Journal
                Public Choice
                Public Choice
                Public Choice
                Springer US (New York )
                0048-5829
                1573-7101
                7 September 2021
                7 September 2021
                : 1-19
                Affiliations
                GRID grid.4464.2, ISNI 0000 0001 2161 2573, Department of Political Economy, King’s College, , University of London, ; London, UK
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6081-838X
                Article
                926
                10.1007/s11127-021-00926-6
                8422831
                32f0bbfe-5698-41d3-9826-91949c4c948f
                © The Author(s) 2021

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                : 13 March 2021
                : 26 August 2021
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                foucault,hayek,public health,social constructionism,narrative political economy,b00,b50,b53,b55

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