We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
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If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.Friedrich August von Hayek
It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
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We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
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