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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