As a non-economist, I always worry about writing to this list. But I am struck by Diana Weinert's request about the "vast spontaneous order." She lists as one example Adam Smith's woolen coat. But doesn't Adam Smith's pin factory suggest that at work also in the modern economy is a vast hierarchical command system (even if some portions may have been discovered spontaneously from local knowledge)? I have nothing against studying the "vast spontaneous order." (Well, I probably do, because *I*, unlike Diana, think it has been vastly over-studied, to the exclusion of other forms of ordering at work in the economy.) But I kind of think it would be also interesting to study the vast hierarchical command order embedded in the modern economy. Peter G. Stillman