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What a silly discussion. Hayek's source was Hayek:
"In the natural sciences, we .. have learned
that the interaction of different tendencies may
produce what we call an _ORDER_, without any mind
of our own kind regulating it. But we still refuse
to recognize that the _SPONTANEOUS_ interplay of
the actions of individuals may produce something which
is not the deliberate object of their actions but an
organism in which every part performs a necessary
function for the continuance of the whole, without any
human mind having devised it."
-- F. A. Hayek, "The Trend of Economic Thinking",
Inaugural Lecture delivered to the L.S.E on March 1, 1933.
So Hayek was already using the language and notion of "spontaneous
order" as early as 1933 -- _without_ having derived the exact
phrase "spontaneous order" from anywhere. The language was already
in his vocabulary, and the idea was already in his work. The only
thing missing here is the exact phrase combination "spontaneous order"
To repeat, the idea is here, the very words are here -- all Hayek
needs to do is type them together.
It's worth noting that Hayek himself makes it rather clear that
his own original understanding of "spontaneous order" (the idea not
the words) in social theory derived from Carl Menger, most particularly
Menger's _Untersuchungen_.
Greg Ransom
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