Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 39 of the manuscript of Deirdre McCloskey’s forthcoming book, Equality of Permission:

The underlying reason that modern politics in its implementation breaks bad is the unexamined though fervent belief in statism, the ancient and now nearly universal conviction that a statist top-down policy, rather than a liberal bottom-up permission, does the job of human flourishing promptly and securely, by plan. Caesar believed it, and thereby shattered the Roman Republic.