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The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

F. A. Hayek

Hayek argues that no central planner can match the dispersed knowledge embedded in markets, traditions, and decentralized social evolution.

What stuck

  • Complex orders often work because no one mind is trying to run all of them.
  • The more dispersed the knowledge, the more dangerous central planning becomes.