[Aquinasfan]

Indeed, if ever there were a view of economics that builds in the blind, purposeless processes of trial-and-error, specialization, and complexity (the hallmarks of the Darwinian algorithm) it is Smith’s invisible-hand economics -- the Austrian variants of which are the most strikingly evolutionary in character.

This is utterly incorrect. The free market operates "as if guided by an invisible hand" because buying and selling simply is the state of "economic nature," as designed by God and imprinted in human nature. Trade is as old as recorded history, as is the notion of private property, which is implied in the divine admonition against stealing.

Historically, other governmental systems imposed against this natural order either collapse or generally exist in a parasitical relationship with the market.

[Broker]

Good voice you are in this wilderness. The anti-ID crowd of Darwinistonianistas are persistent in the adherence to their faith... Are they oriental or occidental in world view?

[Right Wing Professor]

The free market operates "as if guided by an invisible hand" because buying and selling simply is the state of "economic nature," as designed by God and imprinted in human nature.

So was the trading of bananas for sex designed by God and imprinted in Bonobo Chimpanzee nature?

Weird guy, your god.

[Reactionary]

"The free market operates "as if guided by an invisible hand" because buying and selling simply is the state of "economic nature," as designed by God and imprinted in human nature."

It seems to me that the state of "economic nature" that you're talking about is really a primitive state of civilization, not the state of nature that the Enlightenment philosophes and the Founders drew their inspiration from. The state of nature is itself a state of fear; the foundation for civilization is the recognition that men must band together and specialize in order to avoid violent death.

[steve-b]

Historically, other governmental systems imposed against this natural order either collapse or generally exist in a parasitical relationship with the market.

Yes, just as arguments for "intelligent design" either collapse outright or exist in parasitical relationship with real science (by cherry-picking individual scientific discoveries from their context).

[steve-b]

The free market operates "as if guided by an invisible hand" because buying and selling simply is the state of "economic nature,"

Just as evolution through natural selection simply is the state of biological nature. Precisely the author's point.

[dread78645]

This is utterly incorrect. The free market operates "as if guided by an invisible hand" because buying and selling simply is the state of "economic nature," as designed by God and imprinted in human nature.

Strange, God seems to have imprinted that "economic nature" on all primates.

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