http://athousandnations.com/2009/12/08/from-poverty-to-prosperity-an-atn-book-review/ Towards a Cambrian Explosion in Government Tue, 29 May 2012 02:19:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://athousandnations.com/2009/12/08/from-poverty-to-prosperity-an-atn-book-review/#comment-1660 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:45:07 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=928#comment-1660 [...] If so go here! [...]

]]> http://athousandnations.com/2009/12/08/from-poverty-to-prosperity-an-atn-book-review/#comment-1203 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:20:40 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=928#comment-1203 [...] Hence, rather than offer a premature assessment, I want to direct readers to Mike Gibson’s review of the book at Let a Thousand Nations Bloom. Also, Reason.tv’s interview with the authors [...]

]]> http://athousandnations.com/2009/12/08/from-poverty-to-prosperity-an-atn-book-review/#comment-1179 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:24:18 +0000 http://athousandnations.com/?p=928#comment-1179 Excellent, Mike, thank you. I’ve long been a fan of Arnold Kling’s. And, yes, the idea of entrepreneurship lies outside mainstream economic theory. One of the reasons that I call myself a fan of “Austrian economics” is quite simply the Austrians were the only ones who remembered details like property rights and entrepreneurship throughout the 20th century. Now that we know that secure property rights and entrepreneurship are key to prosperity, we can blame 20th century development economics for perpetuating 20th century poverty much longer than is necessary. The Marxists were really bad, but the neo-classical economists were not great.

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