Friedrich Hayek Quote

The illiterate expression 'given data' constantly recurs in Lange. It appears to have an irresistable attraction to mathematical economists because it doubly assures them that they know what they do not know. It seems to bewitch them into making assertions about the real world for which they have no empirical justification whatever.


Two Pages of Fiction (1982)


The illiterate expression 'given data' constantly recurs in Lange. It appears to have an irresistable attraction to mathematical economists because...

The illiterate expression 'given data' constantly recurs in Lange. It appears to have an irresistable attraction to mathematical economists because...

The illiterate expression 'given data' constantly recurs in Lange. It appears to have an irresistable attraction to mathematical economists because...

The illiterate expression 'given data' constantly recurs in Lange. It appears to have an irresistable attraction to mathematical economists because...