ECO.Preface:5 - Consequences and limits

The language can improve the construction and comparison of economic arrangements without requiring one actor to know or direct everything. It can also expose an incompatibility that no available arrangement presently resolves.

Its field boundary is economic reasoning and coordination for the described families. It does not provide a full course in macroeconomic forecasting, monetary and credit theory, taxation, competition law, auction design or welfare economics. A use requiring one of those methods needs its specialist contribution; the ten patterns do not stand for complete coverage of all economics.

The descriptions provide neither legal rights nor resources. They do not guarantee successful entrepreneurship, consensus, fairness or institutional improvement. A chosen arrangement can serve some purposes and burden others; retain those differences in the actual decision.