Peter Stillman writes:  
  
>>But I kind of think it would be also interesting to study the vast  
hierarchical command order embedded in the modern economy.<<  
  
The key fact from the perspective of science here is that order  
in the human domain which does not come directly from the hand of  
a single commander or designer creates a special sort of problem  
to be explained -- a problem comparable in significant ways to the  
problem of undesigned order addressed by Charles Darwin.  Both  
Darwin and Hayek present a preceived design problem with a bottom-up  
causal explanation, rather than a "top down" designer explanation.  
  
This this problem-explanation nexus is Hayek's central point, which  
he discusses in a variety of different places in a variety of different  
ways.  
  
To be clear, Hayek and "Hayekians" have no objection to to the study of  
command structures or pre-designed "intended orders". These simply presents  
a problem of a different scientific order than does the problem of the  
general order of coordinated plans perceivable in the global market economy.  
  
Greg Ransom