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Paul Driessen|Posted: Jun 04, 2016 12:01 AMSeveral years ago, physician, statistician, sword swallower and vibrant Swedish lecturer Hans Rosling produced a fascinating 4-minute video that presented 120,000 data points and showcased how mostly western nations became healthy and prosperous in just 200 years – after countless millennia of malnutrition, disease, wretched poverty and early death. More recently, professor of history and economics Deidre McCloskey provided some clues as to why and how this happened. In a Wall Street Journal article outlining “how the West (and the rest) got rich,” she notes that it wasn’t just Karl Marx’s “exploited workers” or Adam Smith’s “virtuously saved capital, nor was it only Hernando DeSoto and Douglas North’s property rights and other legal institutions. Perhaps the most vital ingredient was that over those two centuries “ideas started having sex,” as author Matt Ridley described the process in The Rational Optimist....http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2016/06/04/how-the-west-got-healthy-and-prosperous-n2173415?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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