Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 36 of University of Notre Dame philosopher James Otteson’s excellent and hot-off-the-Cambridge-University-Press book, Seven Deadly Economic Sins (2021) (original emphasis):

The  story of increasing worldwide wealth over the last two centuries has resulted from allowing ever more people to engage in mutually voluntary and mutually beneficial transactions without third-party interposition.