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Because of such delusion, he is what is called a naive rationalist, a rationalizer, or sometimes just a rationalist, in the sense that he believes that the reasons behind things are automatically accessible to him. And let us not confuse rationalizing with rational—the two are almost always exact opposites.
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
How can there be anything wrong with trying to do good? The answer may be: when the good is an accomplice to even greater, if more invisible, harm. In our era that harm is the concentration of money and power among a small few, who reap from that concentration a near monopoly on the benefits of change.
Winners Take All
Anand Giridharadas
The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights.
The Tyranny of Experts
William Easterly
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