1. On the emergence and abuses of centralized States and control : Seeing Like a State by James Scott, Yale University Press, 1998; James Beniger The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, Harvard University Press (1986)
2. On gun’s statistics : Fight the silencing of gun research, David Hemenway, Nature 546 345 (2017)
3. On the counter-attack by business in the 1960–70’s, see Grégoire Chamayou, The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism, Polity Press (2021)
4. On markets and information carried by prices, Joseph Stiglitz, The Contributions of the Economics of Information to Twentieth Century Economics, The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000) and Richard Bronk, Hayek on the wisdom of prices: a reassessment Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (2013)
5. On new planning, see Evgeny Morozov – Digital socialism? The Calculation Debate in the Age of Big Data, New Left Review March 2019