… is from page 140 of Deirdre McCloskey’s superb forthcoming book, Equality of Permission:
What mattered to the economy was a mad commitment to trying, venturing, experimenting, now suddenly under primary liberalism permitted without let or hindrance – nay, encouraged – in which a proletarian like Edison or Franklin or Faraday could participate.


What mattered to the economy was a mad commitment to trying, venturing, experimenting, now suddenly under primary liberalism permitted without let or hindrance – nay, encouraged – in which a proletarian like Edison or Franklin or Faraday could participate.
