James Otteson — What Are The Seven Deadly Sins of Economics?
The Curious Task
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Is Progress Inevitable?
The levels of wealth that we enjoy today have never existed at any time in human history. And the institutions that have enabled that are both extremely recent and very different from everything that preceded it. The way people began to change their moral views is by partnering with other people voluntarily, so engaging in zero-sum transactions was morally wrong.
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