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When central planning turns to farce …

Written by Steven Schwartz on September 10th, 2008

Nobel prize-winner Friedrich Hayek called the belief in the power of government central planning the “fatal conceit”. Today in an article in The Australian I highlight how that conceit led to a farce in medical training.
In short, I describe how federal government planners decided Australian universities were graduating too many doctors. Then a few years […]