You mis-represent things. Hayek didn't say that reason is limited, but that universal knowledge is impossible. Only if one could have knowledge of all needs, and reactions to prices could one centrally control an economy. This cannot be done, thus centralized control can never work.

No. Hayek, Block, Hazlitt, Menger, von Mises, etc.

I know you have a problem with Austrians as it pertains to IP, but from a strictly economic theory perspective, they have it right. AR had the moral argument, the Austrians have the "science". I already have my own basis for why it is moral, I'm interested in how it functions.

And again, why do you keep trying to tar and feather me with the socialist/progressive brush?

Is there a reason that you want to continue to lie about me?

And there are many more, and in my estimation much better, references on Capitalism than anything that a novelist would have presented. I prefer those who actually study economic theory.

Not exactly true. Most statistics is taught using a normal distribution and the evaluation tools for a normal distribution, but those of us who use statistics as part of our jobs know how to use non-parametric tools to properly study non-normal distributions. Thus, not all statistics analysis provides fallacious info.

As for statistical models providing accuracy better than the "assumptions," that too isn't exactly correct. There are techniques to reduce the error of data - for example increasing the sample size decreases the standard error by 1 over the square root of the number of samples. A good statistical practitioner knows how to compensate for the type and quality of data.

All that aside, that doesn't mean that gov't statisticians are any good or aren't only out to support their ideological objectives by any means necessary.

It's called CAPITALISM!

Exactly, that's the point. And by making the profit suitable for the increased costs of transporting and/or stocking the valued supplies, they are made available when needed at an overall lower cost.

I'm not sure if the SS roles are used in the employment evaluation. Maybe someone more familiar can comment?

Hey, as one who uses statistics as part of my normal job, I represent that remark. ;-)

Hey, I'm writing a tome on the ethics of price gouging. Look for it in the next couple of days.

Yes. So we take all those people who have not been able to find a job and have become so discouraged and no longer even look (but would take a job if there were one to be taken) and we just remove them from the ranks of the jobless. Now that makes perfect sense.