Direct primary read of Röpke's Economics of the Free Society confirms the exact 'spontaneous order' / 'commanded order' phrase Bladel cites

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Chapter I, section 1 ("Ordered Anarchy") of Wilhelm Röpke's Economics of the Free Society — the 1963 Henry Regnery Company English translation, by Patrick M. Boarman, of Die Lehre von der Wirtschaft — reads: "The existence of order in spite of anarchy — 'spontaneous order' if we wish — is not alone an astounding phenomenon in itself. The processes peculiar to economic life in a free society make evident the fundamental superiority of the spontaneous order over the commanded order." This is the same page-4–5 passage Bladel (2005) cites as the textual basis for his claim that Röpke, not Polanyi, first named "spontaneous order" in print — now read directly against the primary rather than taken on Bladel's (Tier 2) account of it.

This upgrades one specific underlying fact — that the exact phrase, paired with "commanded order" as its named contrast, genuinely appears in Röpke's published book — from Bladel's Tier-2 characterization to a Tier-1 direct confirmation. It does not by itself establish that this wording dates to the 1937 first edition rather than a later revision; see claim-ropke-paratext-confirms-1937-first-edition-lineage-not-unrevised-wording for that narrower and still-open question, tracked at question-verify-ropke-1937-used-spontaneous-order-in-print.