The "inevitability" of planning
Hayek and Mises
"It is a revealing fact that few planners are content to say that central planning is desirable. Most often they affirm that we can no longer choose but are compelled by circumstances beyond our control to substitute planning for competition. The myth is deliberately cultivated that we are embarking on a new course not out of free will but because competition is spontaneously eliminated by technological changes which we neither can reverse nor should wish to prevent. This argument is rarely developed at any length - it is on of the assertions taken over by one writer from another until, by mere iteration, it has come to be an accepted fact."
F.A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom
1944
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