Tag: big ideas
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Stop Trying to Save the World (Good Intentions Are Not Enough!)
New Republic: Stop Trying to Save the World: Big ideas are destroying international development, Michael Hobbes One of the first classes I took in the economic development program at Eastern University was a class where we spent the entire semester studying the wide variety of economic development models that had been tried. Few worked. The…
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Conservatives, Libertarians, and Big Ideas
EconoLog: Conservatives, Libertarians, and Big Ideas Stephen Bainbridge writes, it is the Libertarians and the progressives who are Big Idea people. Despite their obvious differences in philosophy, they share the absurd belief that if only their big idea(s) came to pass, society would inexorably progress towards some ideal. …“A people’s historic continuity of experience, says…