… is from pages 428-429 of Frank Knight’s 1944 lecture “The Planful Act: The Possibilities and Limitations of Collective Rationality,” as this lecture is reprinted the 1982 Liberty Fund edition of Knight’s 1947 collection, Freedom and Reform:
Economic competition is one of the unfortunate accidents of terminology; what it means is simply the freedom of individuals to cooperate through exchange with the others who offer (or accept) the best terms.


Economic competition is one of the unfortunate accidents of terminology; what it means is simply the freedom of individuals to cooperate through exchange with the others who offer (or accept) the best terms.
