solution for society and its constituents. This means the boundary of the proper use of politics and the state is identified by what can (and will) be coordinated through decentralized means. In other words, the boundary of politics is composed by our understanding for the
mechanisms behind spontaneous orders and their emergence. Chief among them is the price mechanism and economic calculation. In other words, the 'other side' of politics, which suggests where and to what extent the powers of the state should and can be used, is #economics and,
more broadly, economic literacy. Economic theory explains how markets, the non-directed and unplanned coordination of decentralized efforts, work. Where markets work, and where the market order does not pose a problem that is unsolvable by market actors themselves, there is no
reason for politics--other than as prescribed by the minority normative position that coercion is somehow preferred over voluntarism. There are of course issues involved with defining the exact boundary of the proper realm of politics, and which issues are actual problems. There
is also a problem with 'insiders' in the political system having more or less unlimited interest in expanding their sphere of influence (if not power). But the underlying problem, especially in democracies, is widespread economic illiteracy: if we do not (or will not) understand
how markets work and how beneficial orders can arise spontaneously out of the actions of self-interested actors, whether individuals or families or businesses, then we undermine, move out, and will even dissolve the boundary of the proper realm for politics. In other words, to
use Franz Oppenheimer's old but insightful dichotomy, we invite the political means (coercion), along with the inefficiency and unproductive (if not destructive) incentive structures, to take over the proper space of the economic means (voluntarism). That's problematic for all of
us, if not for society overall, and poses an ethical problem since the vast majority does *not* hold the position that 'coercion is preferable to voluntarism'. A problem that can only be solved by learning how markets work, to study sound economics, and to gain economic literacy.
As Mises put it: 
