The Code of Hammurabi. https://archive.org/details/hiddenrichessour0000hays/page/132/mode/1up?q=%22Builder+shall+be+killed%22 https://archive.org/details/hidden

The Code of Hammurabi. https://archive.org/details/hiddenrichessour0000hays/page/132/mode/1up?q=%22Builder+shall+be+killed%22 https://archive.org/details/hiddenrichessour0000hays/page/13... Probably wasn't a list of real laws? So says Wikipedia: "Rather than a code of laws, then, it may be a scholarly treatise." There's zero equality in it. Killing a commoner is cheaper than killing a noble. If the badly built house falls on a slave, the builder owes the owner a slave. So if the free market is an innovation like equality, and is not natural, well, fair point I guess, and natural isn't necessarily good. But was Babylon natural, anyway, or just old? The notion that the free market is natural means something. I suppose organic is the real idea there, and that makes it just another appeal for using local knowledge as opposed to insensitive central management.