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… is from pages 55-56 of the 2016 Mercatus Center re-issue of my late colleague Don Lavoie’s superb 1985 volume National Economic Planning: What Is Left? [2] (footnote deleted; links added):

unknownThe intricate complexity of our economy is such that removing our profound ignorance of its detailed workings is not just an ambitious and difficult task, as [Wassily] Leontief [3] avers; it is a hopeless dream.  The fundamental defect of virtually all proposals for planning – from Marx to Leontief – lies in what Michael Polanyi [4] calls their “objectivist,” or what F.A. Hayek calls their “rationalistic,” concept of their nature of human knowledge.

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