The vast chain of activities producing everyday goods like a woolen coat or pencil constitutes a 'concatenate coordination'—a series of linked, mutually complementary activities that produces society's output without being enclosed in any single plan or comprehensible to any real human being's view.

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Dan Klein

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I'd like to think of the whole chain of activities that make the woolen coat or the pencil as a kind of concatenation concatenation is a word kind of meaning like a chain a series of linked and mutually complementary activities

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Dan Klein on Coordination and Cooperation 02/04/2008EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:36:53 AM

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