As government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic indicate, when chaos arises, central planners scramble to impose restrictive policies under the guise of “restoring order.”
What Leonard Read understood—and what we all could benefit from understanding—is that these restrictive policies do more to foment chaos than to impose order.
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