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Aux bien pensants

20 August 2016

9:00 AM

20 August 2016

9:00 AM

Why do some governments behave as if they’re little more than thieves in the night? Why is it that the very parties who trumpet their dedication to free enterprise so easily succumb to this? As Hernando de Soto so cogently demonstrated in his magisterial work on capital, they assert that private property is fundamental both to economic progress and individual freedom.

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