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HES: Re: QUERY--Local_Knowledge_and_The_Incredible_Bread_Machine_in_the_history_of_economic_thought

Alan G Isaac (aisaac at american.edu)

Wed Sep 27 20:33:04 EDT 2006

Samuel Bostaph wrote:   
> "Intended order" is important at the micro level in   
> economic organization.  At the economy level, all it has   
> produced historically is misery for the general   
> population--and for the reasons that Mises and Hayek   
> outlined in the 1920s and 30s.   
  
At this point I would contend the conversation has drifted   
from history of thought to ideological assertion.  Perhaps   
a discussion of Hobbes is in order?  
  
Cheers,  
Alan Isaac