“Laissez-faire was planned, planning was not” (Polyani) is probably the truest thing ever said about markets.
Markets are a fragile, young, artificial problem solving mechanism
Some ideologues act like they were part of a primitive/natural “war and trade” Hobbesian condition
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Social protectionism as an emergent phenomenon is an interesting idea. Can you shed more light on how Laissez-faire was planned though?

