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280 Notestricht (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). See alsoRobert L. Heilbroner, The Nature and Logic of Capitalism (NewYork: W. W. Norton, 1985).Chapter 2. Society’s CoordinationOn how social order is achieved, Percy S. Cohen, Modern SocialTheory (New York: Basic Books, 1968), is illuminating, especiallychapter 2.On mutual adjustment generally but especially in the biologicalworld, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (New York:W. W. Norton, 1986) is extraordinary. On mutual adjustment inpolitics, see Charles E. Lindblom, The Intelligence of Democracy:Decision Making Through Mutual Adjustment (New York: FreePress, 1965).The Polybius reference is to his Histories 6.10, trans. W. R. Paton(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923).Chapter 3. Market-System CoordinationOn market-system coordination as it actually develops in history,you might want to sample the descriptive and analytical riches ofFernand Braudel’s Civilisation Matérielle, Economie et Capitalisme:15e–18e Siècle (Paris: A. Colin, 1967); English ed. trans. SianReynolds, Civilization and Capitalism: 15th–18th Centuries (NewYork: Harper & Row, 1981).Chapter 4. Bones Beneath FleshWriters on the market system are largely in agreement on justwhat the subject is—just what a market system is. Yet readers willfind the various accounts strikingly different from one another.Contrast my chapter, say, with the overall view of the market systemthat introduces many textbooks in economics. Or contrastmy exposition with that in John O’Neill’s The Market: Ethics,Knowledge, and Politics (London: Routledge, 1998) and both withJohn Kenneth Galbraith’s earlier The New Industrial State (Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 1967). Different as these accounts are, if you al-