… is from page 117 of the late Anthony de Jasay‘s brilliant 1997 volume, Against Politics [original emphasis]:
The hard part in political theory is to excogitate, not what we ought to want, but how to get it. It is easy enough to call for institutions “designed to” do this, that and the other. The puzzle and the pain begin when the institutions that will do these things have actually to be “designed,” and (even before the design could start) specified in hard engineering language that has a “falsifiable” information content.
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