… is from page xiv of George Gilder’s Foreword to Marian Tupy’s and Gale Pooley’s excellent hot-off-the-press 2022 book, Superabundance (which I read in full in typescript form):
Economies prosper to the extent that knowledge, intrinsically dispersed through the system in the minds of individuals, is complemented by a similar dispersal of power. Free markets and uncontrolled prices typically achieve this goal. Combinations of government and business frustrate it.


Economies prosper to the extent that knowledge, intrinsically dispersed through the system in the minds of individuals, is complemented by a similar dispersal of power. Free markets and uncontrolled prices typically achieve this goal. Combinations of government and business frustrate it.
