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Don Boudreaux, Michael Munger, and Russ Roberts on Emergent Order

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The Order of Bread

Bread eaters will rejoice when they see that every bakery is filled with so much choice. The forgotten pizza lover cries, all the flour's gone to baking bread. There's none left for the pies of pepperoni deep dish, thin crust and Sicilian. We'll just grow lots more wheat, but that means less is something else that people like to eat. This order, this piece has to astound us. So many things we count on, yet no one's behind the curtain, no wizard, no controls, yet the supply of stuff near certain. Every morning the baker's rise early,. They're not under anyone's command. Where in the anatomy textbooks can I view an

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