Unintended Consequences

@article{Vernon1979UnintendedC,
  title={Unintended Consequences},
  author={R. Vernon},
  journal={Political Theory},
  year={1979},
  volume={7},
  pages={57 - 73}
}
RICHARD VERNON Vniversily of Western Ontario u HAT ACTIONS REGULARLY BRING about consequences unintended by the actor is scarcely a controversial point. According to Robert Merton, “virtually every substantial contributor to the long history of social thought” has dealt with the matter:’ Sartre would remove even these qualifications, for “everybody has always known,” he once wrote, that “the consequences of our actions always end up by escaping us.”* But, if the notion of unintended… Expand
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