Is it Possible to Capture Useful Economic Knowledge in Large Aggregates?

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Economy is something so complex, enlarged that it eludes human comprehension. All we can do is try to imbed those principles in legal institutions and perhaps also systems of government. That will produce a space for that mass, sort of cosmos of economic activity to be done its thing.

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