Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on April 22, 2024
… is from Royall Brandis’s review, in the January 1979 Southern Economic Journal, of Charles Lindblom’s Politics and Markets:
The naiveté is really a little sad. It is also a travesty on social science. One feels that the author simply does not comprehend the importance of the ideas of freedom of thought and of the inviolability of the individual. Any real world system or hypothetical model which rejects that theme represents retrogression, not advance, on mankind’s long path to a truly civilized society.
