“The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is mine,” and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have...
“At first countries’ incomes were all bunched together, but with the Industrial Revolution the differences exploded, and the countries have “flown” further apart from each other. . . . [it] pushed some countries forward onto the path to higher incomes while others stayed at the point where they had been for millennia. ....
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. Carl Sagan Suppose that there are only two types of goods which you, as a customer, buy and use. What amount would you prefer to buy from each one of these two goods? Why? Yeah, for sure, there are far...
But Mouse, you are not alone, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes of mice and men Go often askew, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy! – Robert Burns, 1785 In the 19th century, during the British colonial rule in...
