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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 30 Jul \ parent \ on: MMT: Feeding the economically inferior machine econ
Impossible
Hayek calls this the conceit of central planner
Another problem with central planning was illuminated by Friedrich Hayek in “The Use of Knowledge in Society” and in many other writings. The crux of Hayek’s argument is that the knowledge a central planner would need to efficiently plan the economy — even knowledge that isn’t directly related to prices, as in Mises’ calculation problem — is so widely dispersed among so many different individuals that there is simply no hope of collecting, understanding, and using all of it.