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Myrdal embraced what he called “social engineering,” a willingness to discard all previous institutions and traditions regardless of whether there was any historical evidence that they worked. Experts would design new institutions from scratch based on pure reason. Myrdal had explained in 1932 that the new social policy ideology is “rational, whereas the old . . . was quite sentimental.” The expert reformer should be “liberated from the inhibitions” of any reverence for past experience.
The Tyranny of Experts
William Easterly
Pushing harder and harder on familiar solutions, while fundamental problems persist or worsen, is a reliable indicator of nonsystemic thinking—what we often call the “what we need here is a bigger hammer” syndrome.
The Fifth Discipline
Peter M. Senge
This confession, however, places the Christian in a quite different position over against life. For then, in his judgment, not only the church, but also the world belongs to God and in both has to be investigated the masterpiece of the supreme Architect and Artificer.
Lectures on Calvinism
Abraham Kuyper
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