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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (73744)	1/14/2010 1:49:00 PM
From: TimF	3 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

"The success of the United States is often attributed to its generous natural resources and wide open spaces. They certainly played a part--but then, if they where crucial, what explains the success of nineteenth-century Great Britain and Japan or twentieth-century Hong Kong? It is often maintained that while a let-alone, limited government policy was feasible in sparsely settled nineteenth-century America, government must play a far larger, indeed dominant, role in a modern urbanized and industrial society. One hour in Hong Kong will dispose of this view. Our society is what we make of it. We can shape our institutions. Physical and human characteristics limit the alternatives available to us. But none prevents us, if we will, from building a society that relies primarily on voluntary cooperation to organize both economic and other activity, a society that preserves and expands human freedom, that keeps government in its place, keeping it our servant and not letting it become our master." - from the end of Chapter one, "The Power of the Market", in "Free to Choose", but Milton and Rose Friedman.