Alweer een 'oud' boek, maar zeker het lezen waard. De schrijver is als anarchist begonnen; zijn 'bekering' tot het kapitalisme was daarom erg verrasend. De eerste twee hoofdstukken van het boek zijn zelfs gratis online te lezen.
Ook interessant, zijn artikel in Wall Street Journal, over de prestaties van ondernemers:
"Humanity´s Greatest Achievement"
Think for a moment about what this morning would have looked like if it were 150 years ago. You wouldn´t have had electric light, running water or indoor sanitation. You couldn´t have gone to work by car, bus or train. You couldn´t have used a computer, which performs calculations in seconds that would take decades with pen and paper. In short, you would probably not have found this morning very comfortable or enjoyable -- if you had been alive to experience it. Back then, the global average for life expectancy was around 30 years.
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