Knowledge and Decisions

“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”

p. 79

“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”

“Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fra...”

“Intellectuals as a class are dependent upon the backing of political power to impose their visions on the underlying population.”