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“I do not think it an exaggeration to say that the course of human history may be described as the never-completable transition from the ritual system of distribution inaugurated in the originary scene to the market system , where no central authority is necessary to mediate between human beings beyond the universal human order of representation through signs.”

— Eric Gans, The Free Market · Saturday, March 16th, 1996 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment