Humanity's conversations about markets are not just intellectual; they bear on the question of the appropriate role for markets in our societies. Debates about that role sometimes remind me of debates about technology in the 1960s and the 1970s. Technology was then often taken as either to be adulated or to be condemned, and each of the apparent options frequently involved an implicit view of technological change as following an autonomous logic. The surrounding culture could choose to conform to that logic or to reject its products, but could not modify it fundamentally.

Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, loc. 121