EPILOGUEthe free market
I HAVE A PASSION for what we think of as a free-market economy, which, to a great extent, defines the basis of democracy. Without getting too pedantic, if you look back in the history of Western civilization, those nations that have sponsored a competitive free-market economy are also the nations where freedom evolved for their people. These countries were not planned by a central government. They were not organized from the top down.
Where did the basis of a free-market system originate? It came from the fact that, early in the life of Homo sapiens, the species had to rely on others in the group to survive. One man could not do it alone. He could not be as successful when he hunted alone as when he hunted with others; ...
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