Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 8 of Jason Riley’s soon-to-be-released marvelous intellectual biography of the great Thomas Sowell, Maverick:

While other scholars ask what factors cause poverty, Sowell wants to know what circumstances lead to wealth creation. While others argue over how to explain different economic outcomes among different racial and ethnic groups, Sowell wonders why anyone should expect similar outcomes to begin with.