… is from page 116 of the 2007 3rd edition of Russell Roberts’s indispensable and brilliant book The Choice; at a mere 116 pages, Russ’s book might well be, page for page, the single best defense of free trade ever written; in no other work is that which is unseen made so visible and vibrant as Russ here reveals it to be:
Economists understand better than anyone that it’s not really about money, but about striving and living and dreaming.