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Blog Post | Politics & Freedom
Underrated Industrialist, Josiah Wedgwood
Josiah Wedgwood was an entrepreneur, abolitionist, inventor, and in many respects the first modern philanthropist.
Paul Meany the editor for intellectual history at Libertarianism.org, a project of the Cato Institute.
Blog Post | Politics & Freedom
Josiah Wedgwood was an entrepreneur, abolitionist, inventor, and in many respects the first modern philanthropist.
Paul Meany —
Turgot, a French statesman, economist, and early advocate of economic liberalism, was one of the first to ponder how we achieve moral and material progress.
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Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” caused widespread famines. The small village of Xiaogang had suffered enough under communist principles, so residents decided to implement private property—and the results of this experiment changed the whole nation of China.
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Blog Post | Health & Medical Care
Sometimes it is the unsung heroes who move humanity forward.
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Pessimism was the norm for most of human history.
Paul Meany, Marian L. Tupy —