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Planning Fails Due to Lack of Information

When you plan for others you need information you usually think you have but don't, so you take the wrong decision; this is the Hayekian lack-of-information problem applied to cities, where culture especially is the information planners lack.

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Speaker

Alain Bertaud

Evidence Quote

when you want to plan for others, you need some information. And usually you think you have this information, but you don't

Source

Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without DesignEconTalk
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:25:59 AM

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