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Charles Koch, Dan Hannan, Bhuvana Anand, and others pay homage to a great thinker.
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Charles Koch, Dan Hannan, Bhuvana Anand, and others pay homage to a great thinker.
The Result Of The Pies And Divine Light Share Share Trending and the Divine Light It Brings), I discuss how the United States, with its unique structure and practices, builds unprecedented prosperity and liberty. How has this shining Light from America manifested into the world? Due to the spreading of free-market capitalism, with its emanating roots in America, “the share of the world population living in extreme poverty,” writes Dartmouth College economist Douglas Irwin in the Wall Street Journal, “[has] fallen to 15% in 2011 from 36% in 1990.”[1] That means nearly 1.5 billi...
Seven deadly economic sins by James Otteson 29 January 2021 at 03:44 | Every Citizen Should Know ISBN 97811008843379 316 pages Hardcover/$27.95 April 2021 You have heard of the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Each is a natural human weakness that impedes happiness. In addition to these vices, however, there are economic sins as well. And they, too, wreak havoc on our lives and in society. They can seem intuitively compelling, yet they lead to waste, loss, and forgone prosperity. In this thoughtful and compelling book, James R. Otteson t...