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