In eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, progress in ideas and ethics encouraged greater collaboration and competition, creating new opportunities for ordinary people and fostering a great enrichment that benefited all levels of society. Today a new economic liberation is underway, as the egalitarian effects of technology spread across the world, combating poverty and other social ills, and dramatically improving individual wealth and well-being—a trend vulnerable to coercive powers that could damage productivity and liberty.
Art Carden is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and an Associate Professor of Economics at Samford University.
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Deirdre N. McCloskey is Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
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Other Independent Review articles by Art Carden
Spring 2023 The Creation of Knowledge in Society: Waste Defined by Property and Exchange
Spring 2022 “The Danger of Deplorable Reactions”: W. H. Hutt on Liberalism, Populism, and the Constitutional Political Economy of Racism
Summer 2017 We’ll Never Be Royals, but That Doesn’t Matter
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