The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
... that order generated without design can far outstrip plans men consciously contrive
I am convinced that if the market system were the result of deliberate human design, and if the people guided by the price changes understood that their decisions have significance far beyond their immediate aims, this mechanism would have been acclaimed as one of the greatest triumphs of the human mind.
