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# Cato University 2017: *The Economics of Knowledge*

The knowledge needed for economic coordination is dispersed throughout society and not easily communicated. How have markets, prices, and other mechanisms evolved to allow people in free societies to benefit from such dispersed knowledge without having to centralize and master it all themselves?

**From [Cato University 2017: Summer Seminar on Political Economy](https://www.cato.org/cato-university/college-economics)**

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