Acknowledgements
I should like to thank my friends Alan Kirman, for helping me to understand the subtleties of the economic issues covered by Esposito in her book, and Anton Schütz, for commenting so incisively on earlier drafts of this article.
Notes
This article was originally published with errors. This version has been corrected. Please see Corrigendum (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2013.753727).
1. For an introduction to Luhmann's theory see Moeller (Citation2006), King (Citation2009) and Borch (2011).