Apparently Thomas Sowell retells the tale too, but also as as a story "...is said to have asked..". I wonder where this tale originated from then. How an incre

Apparently Thomas Sowell retells the tale too, but also as as a story "...is said to have asked..". I wonder where this tale originated from then. How an incredibly complex, high-tech economy can operate without any central direction is baffling to many. The last President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, is said to have asked British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "How do you see to it that people get food?" The answer was that she didn't. Prices did that. Moreover, the British people were better fed than people in the Soviet Union, even though the British have not produced enough food to feed themselves in more than a century. Prices bring them food from other countries. https://books.google.com/books?id=oVaNBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT21&ots=hbnYxli5pv&dq=mikhail%20gorbachev%20margaret%20thatcher%20British%20feed&pg=PT21#v=onepage&q=mikhail%20gorbachev%20margaret%20thatcher%20British%20feed&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=oVaNBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT21&ots=...