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