A napokban céloztam rá: meglehet, a gazdaság statisztikai tanulmányozása kormányzati intervencióra ösztönöz. És tessék, a mises.org tegnap közölt Murray Rothbardtól egy 1960-as cikket a tárgyban. Egy képben csak talán, s csupán a lényegét idézném: ’Suffice it then to say that a leading cause of the proliferation of governmental statistics is the need for statistical data in government economic planning. But the relationship works also in reverse: the growth of statistics, often developed originally for its own sake, ends by multiplying the avenues of government intervention and planning. In short, statistics do not have to be developed originally for politicoeconomic ends; their own autonomous development, directly or indirectly, opens up new fields for interventionists to exploit.’. (Nota bene, a Rothbard által hivatkozott Stigler cikket is érdemes elolvasni.)