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EstablishedHayek is the best known modern exponent of spontaneous order, which he described as the result of human action but not of human design.EstablishedHayek distinguished grown orders (cosmos), which are spontaneous, from made orders (taxis) deliberately arranged by a directing authority; he took the formula 'the result of human action but not of human design' from Adam Ferguson.