The peculiar character of the problem of a rational economic order is determined precisely by the fact that the knowledge of the circumstances of which we must use never exists in concentrated or integrated form but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individual possess….

…if we can agree that the economic problem of society is mainly that of rapid adaptation to changes in particular time and place，it would seem to follow that the ultimate decisions must be left to the people who are familiar with these circumstances…

──〈社會是怎樣運作用知識的〉
The Use of Knowledge in Society
 海耶克（Friedrich August von Hayek）
1974年諾貝爾經濟學獎得主