Problems and responses -- Getting there : the long road to self-regulation -- Wrongs make rights : self-regulating science -- The less unsaid the better : self-regulating free speech -- A better way forward : self-regulating socioeconomics -- Realignment : fine tuning in light of...

Most of us are familiar with free-market competition: the idea that society and the economy benefit when people are left to self-regulate, testing new ideas in pursuit of profit. Less known is the fact that this theory arose after arguments for the scientific method and freedom of speech had...