… is from page 198 of Arnold Kling’s excellent 2016 book, Specialization and Trade: A Re-introduction to Economics (footnote deleted):
It is always the case that government policymakers are going to lack important information that can be discovered only by participants in the market. Just like a would-be socialist central planner, a regulator faces an insurmountable calculation problem.


It is always the case that government policymakers are going to lack important information that can be discovered only by participants in the market. Just like a would-be socialist central planner, a regulator faces an insurmountable calculation problem.
