“The world is full of self-organizing systems, systems that form structures not merely in response to inputs from outside but also, indeed primarily, in response to their own internal logic. Global weather is a self-organizing system; so, surely, is the global economy.”

Source: The Self-Organizing Economy (1996), Chapter 9. Concluding Thoughts

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