Andre

“What will matter in fifty years in economic history is poverty and its ending, and in political history what will matter is tyranny and its ending. If poverty and tyranny are ended, the rest follows.”
― Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science

“Social scientists should never try to predict the future; they have enough trouble predicting the past.”)”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“reframe violence as a problem to be solved rather than a contest to be won.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity

“Modern liberals do not sit anywhere along the conventional one-dimensional right-left spectrum of governmental coercion.”
― Deirdre N. McCloskey, Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All