whole, of the existence of a self-regulating market. It 
     might be argued that the separateness of the two 
     spheres obtains in every type of society at all times. Such 
     an inference, however, would be based on a fallacy. True, 
     no society can exist without a system of some kind which 
     ensures order in the production and distribution of goods. 
     But that does not imply the existence of separate 
     economic institutions; normally, the economic order is 
     merely a function of the social, in which it is contained. 
     Neither under tribal, nor feudal, nor mercantile conditions 
     was there, as we have shown, a separate economic 
     system in society. Nineteenth century society, in which 
     economic activity was isolated and imputed to a 
     distinctive economic motive, was, indeed, a singular 
     departure.
          Such an institutional pattern could not function