"It is no exaggeration to say that the Economist embodied the most theoretically sophisticated — and unremitting — example of early laissez-faire thought. I try to reconstruct what this body of thought looked like, contextualizing it and the writers who espoused it in the pages of the Economist."
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quoted in "Liberalism Is as Bad as the Economist Makes It Sound" (2020)
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