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Markets are coordination systems as well as allocation systems: prices compress dispersed local knowledge and coordinate action without a central knower.
Knowledge relevant to civilizational action is local, contextual, dispersed, and not reconstructable in full by one central knower.
Civilizational decisions depend partly on practical observations, tacit skill, relationships, constraints, and changing circumstances held across people, organizations, places, and domains. A central model or institution
Incentives, power, institutions, rights, resources, or technical constraints can defeat coordination even when actors understand the stakes and share orientation.
Shared understanding can change preferences, legitimacy, coalition formation, and willingness to act, but it does not automatically alter payoffs, decision rights, material capacity, enforcement, or technical feasibility