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INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS
Institutions= set of rules. Rules = are derived from chaos situations; =consist in opportunity costs patterns for alternative goals; =pattern of behaviour which tell smth about how individuals should make order when they face chaos situations.
Patterns – Diffs; Searle.
Opportunity – the things you sacrifice when taking an action; they are derived from individual actions; they are influencing the behaviour of others because they are able to produce costs.
Opportunity cost for obeying/breaking the rules. There are different situations, circumstances for obeying, while for breaking the rules there are almost the same circumstances.
Corruption=playing by other rules;
Sources that produce opp. costs: the authority (rulers) and the players (ruled)
Rules can be emerged or created. We can have emerged rules because of different actors have patterned opp. Costs and individuals behave in a paternal way. Each time we want to enforce rules that are inconsistent with the power structure of the players, the rules will hardly be enforced. Rules consist in opp. Cost patterns for opp. Human goals.
Institutions are opp. Cost patterns for cultural meta goods wealth and power and set of rules.
Anti-entropic perspective on life – each living being is performing an anti-entropic activity – it captures low entropy from their external environment organizes their own material structure.
Wealth is what we trap from nature and power is what we trap from people.
The institution of the CHURCH can be described in terms of opp. Costs for the 2 meta objectives.
THE PROTESTANT CHURCH – 2 fundamental ideas:
1. Salvation: it is not performed through the Church and sacraments. There is no direct intercourse btw. believer and God, the Church has no mediator role.
2. Salvation through labour is a calling – the opp. Costs for wealth are low – this church encourages wealth – high opp.c. for power.
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