Coordination of Individual Economie Activities as an Evolving Process of Self-Organization

An evolutionary approach to the economic coordination prob¬ lem is suggested. Instead of the strong, neoclassical notion of perfect coordination represented by equilibrium points in the price- quantity-quality (pqq) space the notion of a corridor in the pqq-time space is developed. This corridor is established spontaneously by internal and external forces which control divergence. Within the corridor quite erratic individual pqq-movements are possible, but, due to those selectional forces, systematic changes occur if the bounds are exceeded. Some features of the alternative approach are outlined in a simple model and are compared with characteristics of self-organization phenomena in the natural sciences.