… 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.