Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, February 03 2010 @ 07:58 AM CST
From The Road To Serfdom, by F. A. Hayek, 1944, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, 1994, The University of Chicago Press.
In all this time not one of the many people who have (promised “potential plenty” have) produced a workable plan of how production could be increased so as to abolish even in western Europe what we regard as poverty–not to speak of the world as a whole. The reader may take it that whoever talks about potential plenty is either dishonest or does not know what he is talking about. Yet it is this false hope as much as anything which drives us along the road to planning.
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