Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 140 of Deirdre McCloskey’s forthcoming book, Equality of Permission:

Liberalism permitted the trying out of new ideas to become astoundingly commonplace and astoundingly productive, because it let (almost) everyone try out novelties. New ideas arose therefore from ordinary people, not merely from the heights, as to the contrary the Enlightenment assuredly did in person or in patronage. The new ideas, whether material or institutional or ideational, and at length science itself, came largely from poor people liberated by equality of permission to have a go.