Why governments' attempts to pick winners produce more losers than winners.
"The ordinary man is not such a homo oeconomicus, just as he is neither hero nor saint. The motives that drive people toward economic success are as varied as the human soul itself."
"A wise mind will never censure any one for taking any action, however extraordinary, which may be of service in the organizing of a kingdom or the constituting of a republic", Discourses on the First Ten Books of Titus Livy (1514)