Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

Deirdre Nansen McCloksey

Freedom Does It

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Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Jan 01, 2020
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Free adults, and not merely educated ones, make a country rich, as McCloskey writes in her preface to the Korean edition of Why Liberalism Works.

“South Korea’s devotion to education, to be sure, doesn’t hurt. But education without freedom would merely make better slaves, not better entrepreneurs. Most venturing in the economy doesn’t require a PhD in en…

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