Humility and Brilliance: a Postscript

Having moved on to the activities of today, I was pleasantly struck by an Opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal.  Titled “A Nobel Economist’s Caution About Government,” the piece quotes from the great Hayek: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really  know about what they imagine they can design.”

While I suspect the authors of the piece have not visited our Blog, the themes our readers have come to expect from us resonate in the articulation by the authors of the risks of certainty in an inherently uncertain world.

We close with (what else?) but a closing thought: Those who relegate poetry to the idlings of idiosyncratic daydreamers deprive themselves of the riches of ambiguity and expose themselves to a deceptive clarity that leads to unintended consequences and ossification.