Jamal Awil

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Indeed, markets themselves can be seen as prostheses in the sense that they enable. [causal]

Indeed, markets themselves can be seen as prostheses in the sense that they enable human beings to achieve outcomes that go beyond their individual cognitive grasp. … The classic examples are the demonstrations that when placed in a double-auction market akin in its structure to open-outcry trading, both untutored human beings and even computerized "zero-intelligence traders" submitting "random bids and offers" achieve economic outcomes close to those predicted by theories that posit fully rational economic actors (Smith 1991; Gode and Sunder 1993, p. 119).

Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, loc. 1206