122 books
—
78 voters
Andre
https://www.goodreads.com/andreconsal
“Therefore, having a lot is not immoral. It is the good luck to be born in America or Japan or Denmark. The “luck” consists chiefly of a modern liberal ideology of innovism combined with reasonably honest courts and reasonably secure property rights and reasonably non-extractive governments and reasonably effective educational systems, and a reasonably long time for the reasonably good ideas, and especially the innovations, to do their work. By all means let’s spread the good luck around—by persuading people to a modern liberalism leading to the Great Enrichment, and a full life.”
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
“What will matter in fifty years in economic history is poverty and its ending, and in political history what will matter is tyranny and its ending. If poverty and tyranny are ended, the rest follows.”
― Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science
― Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science
“reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
“A world that is less invigorated by honor, glory, and ideology and more tempted by the pleasures of bourgeois life is a world in which fewer people are killed.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
“the much-maligned “capitalism” has raised the real income per person of the poorest since 1800 not by 10 percent or 100 percent, but by over 3,000 percent.”
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
Andre’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Andre’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Andre
Lists liked by Andre
















