That the increasing discredit into which democratic government has fallen is due to democracy having been burdened with tasks for which it is not suited is a fact of the greatest importance which has not yet received adequate recognition. Yet the fundamental position is simply that the probability of agreement of a substantial portion of the population upon a particular course of action decreases as the scope of State activity expands.
F.A. Hayek, “Freedom and the Economic System”, 1938.
April 9, 2018
QotD: Democracy and the scope of government
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