[Alberta's Child]

Free markets are an example of a complex system where system state is not a product of design.

You don't really believe that, do you? Free markets cannot exist without a substantial amount of design and coordination. In fact, free markets cannot exist without a complex legal system in place to guarantee the integrity of contracts, a monetary system that holds value for buyers and sellers, a proper system of securing land titles, etc.

[ConsistentLibertarian]

Those are micro-level choices. There's no agent in a free market who is capable of determining _system_ state, ie employment level. In a central system, that's not true. The state makes direct choices about sytem state.

[jennyp]

You don't really believe that, do you? Free markets cannot exist without a substantial amount of design and coordination. In fact, free markets cannot exist without a complex legal system in place to guarantee the integrity of contracts, a monetary system that holds value for buyers and sellers, a proper system of securing land titles, etc.

But the legal system evolved. The monetary system evolved. The system of titles & title insurance, etc. evolved. If they didn't, then please tell me the names of the designers of today's legal, monetary, title, etc. systems?