[e-gold-list] Re: America, no longer the land of the free.

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 8:55 AM -0400 on 6/9/01, Craig Spencer wrote:


> Why do you think that the state of the world is that there is a trade
> off between freedom and wealth?    There is little freedom and there is
> comparative wealth but that does not mean that there is an either/or
> connection between the two.

In fact, wealth, as we know it in the west, *requires* individual freedom.

See Mancur Olson's "Power and Prosperity".

Marvellous book. I recommend it highly.

Cheers,
RAH


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