Adam Ferguson came pretty close
Adam Ferguson. 1767. An Essay on the History of Civil Society (New Brunswick: Transaction Books): p. 187 "the results of human action, but not the execution of any human design." see also Hamowy, R. 1987. The Scottish Enlightenment and the Theory of Spontaneous Order (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press).
I think that Hayek also used the term.
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 09:13:28PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Dec 1, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote:
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> > unintended consequences
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> A phrase coined by Irving Kristol, I believe. There's something
> conservative about the concept.
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> Doug
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