The divine
economy is not separable from human civilization, nor is it separable from the
advancement of human culture at the individual or societal level. The divine
economy operates in accordance with the Will of God and it is a vehicle for the
expression of the will of man. The implication of the divine economy is that
there are laws and that there is order.
The power
within and without the divine economy is beyond our grasp. Yet throughout
history men have sought to grasp it. Examples throughout history abound. For
the short while and ephemeral period that the power-hungry clutched the economy
their illusion of control corrupted them, and the economy became distorted and
diverted, leading to the suffering of many both near and distant. Ultimately
the destiny of mankind was slowed by their intervention. Quoting Rothbard:
“The hidden
order, harmony and efficiency of the voluntary free market, the hidden
disorder, conflict and gross inefficiency of coercion and intervention — these
are the great truths that economic science, through deductive analysis of
self-evident axioms, reveals to us.” [4]
MORE THAN
LAISSEZ-FAIRE,
p. 9.
[4] Murray N. Rothbard, Man Economy and State, second edition,
Scholar’s Edition (Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2004), p. 1124.
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