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The last section of the book deals with [[intellectuals]], those whose profession is the distribution of ideas. Sowell questions the popular unwavering faith in the expert intellectual and "articulated rationality" for "solutions" to economic or political problems. He explains that through intellectuals government agencies such as the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency]] and [[National Institutes of Health]] have become more numerous and more powerful. Sowell explains that agencies make more laws than Congress does, but the agencies are insulated from any sort of consequences of their decisions because the officials are not even elected. That has the effect of creating a larger divide between people who make decisions and those who experience the consequences.
Sowell also dwells on the recurrent [[unintended consequences]] of many intellectual decisions. Consequently, Sowell advocates a decentralizing of the decisions by allowing people to make economic choices for themselves rather than assuming that non-elected intellectuals at centralized planning agencies will make better decisions.
==See also==
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