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Overconfidence in ability to design society

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"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."

— Hayek, Friedrich event 1973

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de La Fontaine, Jean

event 1621 - 1695

French poet and fabulist whose verse fables, satirizing human folly, vanity, and self-importance through animal allegory, remain a cornerstone of F...

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The Fly on the Coach

An idiom drawn from Jean de La Fontaine's 1678 fable

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