Lindblom - The Market System - Afghan Journalists' Committee

Market System Ascendant 15But what moves me to write is a desire to examine themarket system as an extraordinary social process, just asone might, in wonder or even awe, examine an enormouslycomplex machine or biological organism, whether benignor threatening. Although the market system is roughly familiarto all of us, not even economists wholly understandit; and I as an economist want to extend my own understandingas well as that of the reader. I can think of manypurposes to which an improved understanding can be put,and the gain in understanding is itself a pleasure.