Contract law and markets fail without prior socialization into impersonal disciplines.

Evidence

There are several reasons why this does not generally work. State law does not apply except in the form of occasional punishment. Markets are erratic and the substantive conditions of rational calculation are largely absent. The Frafras have not been socialized to make and keep contracts of this sort (they are, for instance, rarely on time), and the impersonal disciplines involved have to be invented from scratch. They lack education. They have no grounds for confidence in outcomes established by contract. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2427

Categorization

• XREF: The failure of formal contract for Frafra migrants parallels the doctor’s wife’s society in Saramago collapsing when sighted monitoring disappears — impersonal order needs internalized discipline, not just written rules.