Pies For Everyone And The Divine Light It Brings
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“Pies for everyone” is derived from a free-market and from liberty. In the United States the two pillars – the free-market and a compactual-republic, or liberty – equate to citizens having prosperity and freedom. In his
Essay in Interpretation of the Industrial Revolution, economist Robert Higgs marvelously articulates the integration of freedom and prosperity embedded in our system:
Throughout the post-Civil War era in America free individuals acting within markets made most of these choices.
No one planned or directed the organization of economic life in any formal, overall way. Individuals themselves decided what, how much, where, when, and how to produce. Yet even though each person pursued his own designs, the overall result was not chaotic; instead, it was orderly and in many ways predictable.