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“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
“Modern liberals do not sit anywhere along the conventional one-dimensional right-left spectrum of governmental coercion.”
― 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
“Social scientists should never try to predict the future; they have enough trouble predicting the past.”)”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”
― Omnipotent Government
― Omnipotent Government
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