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EmpiricalRequires evidence
Economically useful knowledge includes job-specific and local information acquired beyond general theoretical training.
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We need to remember only how much we have to learn in any occupation after we have completed our theoretical training, how big a part of our working life we spend learning particular jobs, and how valuable an asset in all walks of life is knowledge of people, of local conditions, and special circumstances.
Where the agents stand
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Hayek supplies the explicit argument and examples. This supports looking outside a research team, not a measured claim that any crowd outperforms experts.