Adam Smith talks about how the impartial spectator stands for your and my discovery of how our behavior is responded to by other people. He describes what I think is rather a good feedback loop. We came up with these rules among ourselves through some kind of feedback loop, but it doesn't involve law giver that wrote them. And yet they're everywhere when you think about it.
Matt Ridley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Evolution of Everything. Ridley applies the lens of emergent order to a wide variety of phenomena including culture, morality, religion, commerce, innovation, and consciousness.