The market as human entanglement nettings

Christian Aspalter

Chapter 12 in Quantum Economics, 2025, pp 100-113 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, we look at what markets really are, in the real-life outside world of this Earth (not in abstract, Moon-like terms). The chapter defines markets, in the terminology of force-based/entanglement-based quantum economics, as nettings that are formed by the interplay of networks, meshes, and strings of human entanglements. These entanglements can be positive or negative. They can amplify (support, grow, protect) or dampen (tax, regulate, replace, legally limit, etc.) market operations and market opportunities. The second part of the chapter looks at the reality of the state crowding out markets, forcing out markets. This has happened over the last half-century all over the world, already including developing countries. This, too, is the workings of entanglements, as changed market and policy conditions (economic crises, oil crises, wars, energy crises, high inflation, etc.) are always providing fertile ground for market-hostile government actions, in a myriad of ways, in a myriad of instances (rulings, decisions, etc.), all adding up to one another and over time.

Keywords: Economic markets; Increasing state intervention; Increasing state subsidies; Increasing taxation; Increasing regulations; Human entanglements; Positive social policies instead of negative social policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035366804
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