Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 128 of Deirdre McCloskey’s forthcoming book, Equality of Permission [original emphasis]:

The evidence is by now overwhelming, compiled for example in works on economic history, among which my own, that liberty in equal permission has led over the past two centuries and especially over the past seventy years – speaking empirically, quantitatively, comparatively, scientifically – to equality, fairness, justice, better culture, and better ethics. Abridgments of liberty have worked the other way.