Sun Oct 1 20:05:41 EDT 2006
Bruce Caldwell wrote:
> For me, the phrase "the unintended consequence of intentional human
> action" captures the sorts of thing that Hayek meant by spontaneous order.
> In the market order, people just do their jobs, they have what Paul
> Seabright called "tunnel vision" - they don't see what role they play in
> the larger order. No one person decides to feed Paris; but Paris gets
> fed, and every day too, and people (with the purchasing power, an
> important but separate issue) can get whatever they want to eat.
As others have pointed out: if that's all it means then Hayek is not
unique, almost all social theorists have some concept of this kind.
Rod Hay