"Those people who make their living by devising and offering better mousetraps to willing buyers are too often portrayed as villains, while those other people who promise to forcibly take the fruits of the mousetrap factories from their creators and ‘re-distribute’ those fruits to the masses are portrayed as heroes."That is from Don Boudreaux commenting on an 1883 essay by William Graham Sumner.
"The real purpose of scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you know something you don't actually know." - Robert Pirsig
Friday, 6 March 2015
Sentences I Could Have Written
Labels:
Boudreaux,
economics,
government,
innovation,
markets,
politics,
quotes,
redistribution
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