Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“Our lives are improved in all sorts of ways by courageous, risk-bearing entrepreneurs, who seek to change the world at a profit. For that reason alone, we should jealously safeguard an environment friendly to entrepreneurship. As the economic historian Deirdre McCloskey has shown through indefatigable research, when society is marred by envy of the richer and highly successful, we all suffer. Widespread prosperity soars, McCloskey demonstrates, when a culture in effect erects huge neon signs brightly flashing the message, ‘You think you have a great idea? Well, give it a go!’ That is not how people have felt through most of history. Envy that bred a fear of pioneers smothered innovation.” (02/06/26)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2026/02/tgif-damn-those-innovators.html