“Because intelligent choices of public policies require both technical understanding and sensitivity to the values involved, in modern democratic countries a form of specialized intellectual activity has evolved that tends to combine both aspects of policy.”

After the Revolution? (1970; 1990), Ch. 3 : Democracy and Markets

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American political scientist 1915–2014

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