Coyne, Christopher; Mathers, Rachel - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2009
The fatal conceit is the assumption that the world can be shaped according to human desires. This paper argues that the … logic of the fatal conceit can be applied to foreign interventions which go beyond the limits of what can be rationally … constructed by reason alone. In suffering from the fatal conceit, these interventions are characterized by: (1) the realization …
