Ordre Quotes
The notion that human interaction could spontaneously and autonomously achieve a stable, orderly, self-sustaining form of equilibrium in the absence of government intervention-what François Quesnay and the first school of économistes dubbed un ordre naturel in the late 1750s-has facilitated a conception of the market as a self-regulating system that could only prosper by purging itself of the prejudicial meddling of governments and politics. In the face of this new conception of an orderly market, governance would be relegated outside that autonomous space, charged with the responsibility of policing and punishing those who deviate-those who do not see the natural laws or, in more technical jargon, who bypass the market.
Bernard Harcourt
