Deirdre McCloskey on Adam Smith
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What Caused The Economic Boom of Wealth?
11 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
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The Bourgeois Era (with Deirdre McCloskey)
10 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
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Why does 1% of history have 99% of the wealth?
07 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
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The last word on Piketty: Deirdre McCloskey, John McTernan, Chris Giles Panel
29 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
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Does socialism deserve another chance?
22 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
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…very many normal people of leftish views, even after communism, even after numerous disastrous experiments in central planning, even after trying to get a train ride from Amtrak or service from the Postal Service (not to mention service from the Internal Revenue Service or from the Immigration and Naturalization Service; you see I wax indignant: I am, after all, a free-market economist), think Socialism Deserves a Chance.
They think it obvious that socialism is after all fairer than unfettered capitalism. They think it obvious that regulation is after all necessary to restrain monopoly.
They don’t realize that free markets have partially broken down inequality (for example, between men and women; “partially,” I said) and partially undermined monopolies (for example, local monopolies in retailing) and have increased the income of the poor over two centuries by a factor of 18.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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