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The Mainspring of Human Progress
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Author: Henry Grady Weaver
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Category: U.S. Economy, U.S. History
What has capitalism contributed to civilization? It made it. And nowhere has it thrived so beautifully as in America, the country that threw off the static old world to make a new one rooted in progress and individualism. With incredible erudition and historical understanding, Henry Grady Weaver tells the true story of progress for the human race
Unplanned Planning
Mises Daily
Author: Henry Grady Weaver
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Category: Entrepreneurship, Biographies, Free Markets, U.S. History
The American states had united in a voluntary federation; but there was no unified control, no overall plan. This is just the opposite of the Old World pattern. In other nations, the overlords develop their ambitious plans, enforced by the firing squad and supported by huge predatory armies. These plans look fine on paper, but they are
Inventive Progress
Mises Daily
Author: Henry Grady Weaver
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Category: Entrepreneurship, Private Property, Free Markets, Global Economy
[Excerpted from chapter 18 of The Mainspring of Human Progress (1943)] When the American Revolution had its beginning, living conditions had scarcely changed since the reign of Nebuchadnezzar. The colonial woman gathered her own firewood and cooked over an open fire, just as women had cooked since the dawn of history, and just as more than
Inventive Progress, Part 2
Mises Daily
Author: Henry Grady Weaver
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Category: Entrepreneurship, Private Property, Free Markets, World History
[Excerpted from chapter 18 of The Mainspring of Human Progress (1953), this article is part two of a two-part series. Part 1 can be found here .] For thousands of years under the Old World concept of a static economy operating under bureaucratic control, human beings lived in hunger, filth, and disease. They worked ceaselessly at backbreaking
Freedom, Ownership, and Human Progress
Mises Daily
Author: Henry Grady Weaver
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Category: Free Markets
[ The Mainspring of Human Progress (1953)] For 60 known centuries, this planet that we call Earth has been inhabited by human beings not much different from ourselves. Their desire to live has been just as strong as ours. They have had at least as much physical strength as the average person of today, and among them have been men and women of
The Pagan View
Mises Daily
Author: Henry Grady Weaver
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Category: Interventionism, Free Markets
[ The Mainspring of Human Progress (1943)] The pagan has a fatalistic outlook on life. He believes that the individual is helpless; that he is wholly at the mercy of relentless forces outside of himself; that there’s nothing he can do to improve his lot. The vast majority of people have always been pagans. Most of them are still pagans. The