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The ultimate think tank: The rise of the Santa Fe Institute libertarian*
History of the Human Sciences ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 , DOI: 10.1177/09526951211068995
Erik Baker 1
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Why do corporations and wealthy philanthropists fund the human sciences? Examining the history of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI), a private research institute founded in the early 1980s, this article shows that funders can find as much value in the social worlds of the sciences they sponsor as in their ideas. SFI became increasingly dependent on funding from corporations and libertarian business leaders in the 1990s and 2000s. At the same time, its intellectual work came to focus on the underlying principles of adaptation, innovation, and decentralized coordination supposedly at work in ‘complex systems’ from biological ecosystems to markets and firms. This research cast the ideas of the libertarian economist Friedrich Hayek into a new scientific idiom. SFI also became a space where figures in business, media, academia, and politics could come to learn to see the world in a particular way—to acquire the subjectivity of what I call ‘the Santa Fe Institute libertarian’. At SFI, visitors did not simply learn the principles of neo-Hayekian complex system science. They came to see themselves as agents of social evolution, providing the spark that the free-market system needed to produce new technologies and new solutions to social problems without top-down political direction. For the Institute's corporate and libertarian financiers, SFI was not just a space where intellectuals described the world in favored ideological terms, but a space where elite actors became committed to the project of making a new political-economic order.



中文翻译:

终极智囊团:圣达菲研究所自由主义者的崛起*

为什么企业和富有的慈善家资助人文科学?本文考察了圣达菲研究所 (SFI) 的历史,这是一家成立于 1980 年代初期的私人研究机构,本文表明,资助者可以在他们所赞助的科学的社会世界中找到与他们的想法一样多的价值。在 1990 年代和 2000 年代,SFI 越来越依赖来自企业和自由主义商业领袖的资金。与此同时,它的智力工作开始关注适应、创新和分散协调的基本原则,这些原则被认为在从生物生态系统到市场和公司的“复杂系统”中起作用。这项研究将自由主义经济学家弗里德里希·哈耶克的想法转化为一个新的科学成语。SFI 也成为商业、媒体、学术界人士、政治可以学会以一种特殊的方式看待世界——获得我所谓的“圣达菲研究所自由主义者”的主观性。在 SFI,参观者不仅仅是学习新哈耶克复杂系统科学的原理。他们开始将自己视为社会进化的推动者,为自由市场体系提供了产生新技术和解决社会问题的新解决方案所需的火花,而无需自上而下的政治方向。对于研究所的企业和自由主义金融家来说,SFI 不仅是知识分子以有利的意识形态术语描述世界的空间,而且是精英行为者致力于建立新的政治经济秩序的项目的空间。参观者不仅学习了新哈耶克复杂系统科学的原理。他们开始将自己视为社会进化的推动者,为自由市场体系提供了产生新技术和解决社会问题的新解决方案所需的火花,而无需自上而下的政治方向。对于研究所的企业和自由主义金融家来说,SFI 不仅是知识分子以有利的意识形态术语描述世界的空间,而且是精英行为者致力于建立新的政治经济秩序的项目的空间。参观者不仅学习了新哈耶克复杂系统科学的原理。他们开始将自己视为社会进化的推动者,为自由市场体系提供了产生新技术和解决社会问题的新解决方案所需的火花,而无需自上而下的政治方向。对于研究所的企业和自由主义金融家来说,SFI 不仅是知识分子以有利的意识形态术语描述世界的空间,而且是精英行为者致力于建立新的政治经济秩序的项目的空间。

更新日期:2022-02-21
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