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“The economy, like science or art, is more like an organism growing uncertainly toward the light than a steel machine repeating exactly today and tomorrow what it did yesterday.”
― Deirdre N. McCloskey, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All

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“Social scientists should never try to predict the future; they have enough trouble predicting the past.”)”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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“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.”
― Deirdre N. McCloskey, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All

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“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government

tags: anarchy, ancap, coercion, communism, fascism, free, free-markets, freedom, government, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, nazism, non-aggression-principle, omnipotent, politics, regime, slavery, socialism, state, statism, totalitarian, trade, voluntaryism

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“reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

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