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HAYEKWEB: V Postrel on Hayek & 'Information' (fwd)
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> Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 11:47:23 -0500
> From: Robert Hettinga <[email protected]>
> Subject: HAYEKWEB: V Postrel on Hayek & 'Information'
> >> Hayek on the Web <<
>
> "Knowledge at a Cost" by Virginia I. Postrel, editor of _Reason_
> magazine, on the Web at:
>
> http://www.reasonmag.com/opeds/vpasap0695.html
>
> >From "Knowledge at a Cost":
>
> ".. The "information is free" school of thought also tends to assume
> that information magically appears in computer networks.
It's "information wants to be free". A subtle but profound distinction.
> Nobel laureate F.A. Hayek, one of the earliest economic theorists
> of the role of knowledge, would have recognized the problem.
> Organizations overcome such difficulties through compromise
> and negotiation, or they break down. But society as a whole
> can avoid the "knowledge problem" only at the cost of stamping
> out individuality.
It's a real pitty Hayek never tried 'cooperation' instead of 'compromise'.
Oh, the short-short sightedness of ego and tryanny.
What is the line of reasoning that the *only* solution for society is to
stamp out individuality? Sounds more like wishful thinking from some
brain-dead drone with no imagination or respect for others.
Perhaps he should have stuck with economics and kept away from sociology.
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