Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On February 20, 2013 @ 7:50 am In Growth | Comments Disabled
… is from page 385 of of Deirdre McCloskey’s great 2010 volume, Bourgeois Dignity [1]:
The distinction is between a literally conservative view that reallocation of resources makes for a tiny improvement, maybe, if you’re careful, and the radical/liberal view that the sky’s the limit to the human imagination once it is made dignified and free.
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