Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist.
However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8, “Private Property and Common Wealth.” See my discussion of that chapter.
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It was 250 years ago that Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations. In it, he looked back on the contact that various distant peoples had had with Europeans, following the discoveries of Christopher Colombus and Vasco de Gama. The results, by Smith’s time in 1776,...
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John and I continue the reading and commentary on Rules for Radicals
