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10. James Otteson - Seven Deadly Economic Sins

Ideas Having Sex

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Is the Moral Way to Treat People a Good Idea?

This is still one of the most important, like, relatively open questions in human history. The idea that more and more people were moral agents has unleashed the great enrichment as it's been called. It really was the changing view attitudes that people had, and then the institutions that changed to reflect those attitudes. That's a kind of, you know, very much an abbreviated history of what happened,. But I think that's the story that suggests that it really was the Changing View Attitudes that People Had And Then Institutions Changed To Reflect them.

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