Deirdre McCloskey - Why Does Liberalism Work?
The Curious Task
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Capitalism Is a Scientific Mistake
i love the way yo e putting it in quotes in your writing, and we'll get to that in a second. I'm pushing further on exactly that thought, actually. As far as the secret sauce and so on and so forth. A lot of people, sort of, hand in hand, associate liberalism itself with the idea of capitalism. And of course, the lot comes with that loaded term. To that you say, and i have a quote from you here, from one of the chapters in your book, capitalism is a scientific mistake compressed into a single word. It's actually that last part that's the most interesting to me. Can you please elaborate on why you don't like
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