its largely State-coordinated system DOES provide an attractive alternative.

It does, but it begs the questions of what is the State, and where does State coordination end and State ownership begin?

In other words, the legal and financial framework I bang on about and the necessity for an enterprise model to replace monolithic opaque (state secret) hierarchical States and monolithic opaque (commercial in confidence) hierarchical Corporations.

IMHO we need flat, flexible, transparent, collaborative networked mechanisms fit for the 21st century knowledge economy.

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson