He linked the notion of a spontaneous order that forms when agents follow (often simple) rules with the idea of complex systems in the 1950s. This was a critical breakthrough, for it allowed him to drop the old natural science-social science dichotomy ...

— Bruce Caldwell Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek (2004)

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