“The price system transmits only the important information and only to the people who need to know.”
Milton Friedman book Free to Choose
Source: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", 15
“People will resist information unless the price of not knowing it greatly exceeds the price of learning it.”
Attributed to Mooers (1959) in Eugene Garfield (1997) "A Tribute To Calvin N. Mooers, A Pioneer Of Information Retrieval." The Scientist, Vol:11, #6, p. 9, March 17, 1997
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