ABSTRACT
Chapter two looks at how modern autopoietic economic and social systems work. The major ones are markets, industries and cities. They are self-organizing on a large scale and responsive to pattern order. They harmonize the decisions and choices of millions of people. These auto-catalytic systems downplay rules, plans and procedures. Instead they are pattern-based, paradoxical and providential in nature. Rather than relying on high degrees of methodical organization and management direction, they are animated principally by ratios, fractals, cycles, symmetries, and oppositions in equilibrium.
