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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (930821)4/17/2016 4:08:52 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574251
 
Or I can live in the 7th largest economy in the world

How'd it get that way?

You can start with Sutter's Mill, but the real story comes after.

Any positive contribution by government outside my previous outline?



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (930821)4/18/2016 2:56:47 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574251
 
Quotation of the Day…




… is from page xvii of the just-published third volume – Bourgeois Equality – in Deirdre McCloskey’s brilliant trilogy on the essence and role of bourgeois values in modern life:
And in truth our main protection against the ravenous has been just such competition in trade – not City Hall or Whitehall, which have had their own ravenous habits, backed by violence.