Faith in natural order and market efficiency forecloses a full normative assessment of market outcomes. ... It effectively depoliticizes the market itself and its outcomes. It is only when the illusion of natural order is lifted that a real problem arises: that of the justice of the organizational rules and their distributional consequences.

— Bernard Harcourt The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (2011)

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