How can it be that institutions which serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed toward establishing them? (Carl Menger)

How can it be that institutions which serve the common welfare and are extremely significant for its development come into being without a common will directed toward establishing them?

Carl Menger

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