“I've always doubted that the socialists had a leg to stand on intellectually. They have improved their argument somehow, but once you begin to understand that prices are an instrument of communication and guidance which embody more information than we directly have, the whole idea that you can bring about the same order based on the division of labor by simple direction falls to the ground. Similarly, the idea [that] you can arrange for distributions of incomes which correspond to some conception of merit or need. If you need prices, including the prices of labor, to direct people to go where they are needed, you cannot have another distribution except the one from the market principle. I think that intellectually there is just nothing left of socialism.”

—  Friedrich Hayek

Interview with Thomas W. Hazlett in May of 1977, as published in &quot; The Road to Serfdom, Forseeing the Fall&quot;, in Reason magazine (July 1992) http://reason.com/archives/1992/07/01/the-road-from-serfdom <br class="br">1960s–1970s

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