We are only beginning to understand on how subtle a communication system the function of an advanced industrial society is based - a communication system which we call the market and which turns out to be a more efficient mechanism for digesting dispersed information than any that man has deliberately designed. If man is not to do more harm than good in his efforts to improve the social order, he will have to learn that in this, as in all other fields where essential complexity of an organized kind prevails, he cannot acquire the full knowledge which would make mastery of the events possible. He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shape his handi- work, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does his for his plants.
Stated succinctly, under a Taoist perspective government should nurture the economy by providing proper surroundings for market mechanisms to operate.