John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies
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The Importance of Political Liberalism
There's not much evidence that human beings somehow evolve into very liberal political entities. And the periods that promote political and economic liberalism tend to be short-lived historically. What's interesting about the last two or fifty years is how relatively stable political liberalism has been. But I think the assumption that political liberalism as we've seen that foments both increased individual freedoms plus economic growth is either stable or sustainable is not clear cut to me. If you think about this in terms of an abstract model, what exactly happened and was it inevitable? I don't think it was inevitable at all.
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