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Quotation of the Day…

Posted By Don Boudreaux On December 18, 2011 @ 2:02 pm In Complexity & Emergence,Law,Myths and Fallacies | Comments Disabled

… is from a January 1847 number of The Economist; it is reprinted on page 248 of Matt Ridley’s superb 1997 book The Origins of Virtue ^[1]:

The Post probably imagines, because laws and institutions are intended to promote the public benefit, that they make society; but a different philosophy ^[2] represents society as the natural product of the instincts of individuals.

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