Editing Division of labour (section)

=== Friedrich A. Hayek ===
In "[[The Use of Knowledge in Society]]", [[Friedrich A. Hayek]] states:<ref>[[Friedrich A. Hayek|Hayek, Friedrich A.]] 1945. "[[The Use of Knowledge in Society]]." ''[[The American Economic Review|American Economic Review]]'' 35(4):519–30.</ref>
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{{blockquote|The price system is just one of those formations which man has learned to use (though he is still very far from having learned to make the best use of it) after he had stumbled upon it without understanding it. Through it not only a division of labour but also a coordinated utilisation of resources based on an equally divided knowledge has become possible. The people who like to deride any suggestion that this may so usually distort the argument by insinuating that it asserts that by some miracle just that sort of system has spontaneously grown up which is best suited to modern civilisation. It is the other way round: man has been able to develop that division of labour on which our civilisation is based because he happened to stumble upon a method which made it possible. Had he not done so, he might still have developed some other, altogether different, type of civilisation, something like the "state" of the termite ants, or some other altogether unimaginable type.|title=|source=}}