tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post1400454867164651914..comments2023-08-24T07:27:12.657-07:00Comments on Contra O'Reilly: Will Durant on Free Trade and How it Helped to Build AthensWill "take no prisoners" Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02315659209094683602noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-16218648968394291672013-11-30T12:46:23.468-08:002013-11-30T12:46:23.468-08:00..once in awhile there is a foreign aid exception:.....once in awhile there is a foreign aid exception:<br />"Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $118 billion"BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-54217278127391595942013-11-29T20:06:56.636-08:002013-11-29T20:06:56.636-08:00I would also add that free trade has brought milli...I would also add that free trade has brought millions of people out of utter destitution while foreign aid has tended to make people poorer and dictators richer.Will "take no prisoners" Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02315659209094683602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-48538657148455159162013-11-29T18:18:59.085-08:002013-11-29T18:18:59.085-08:00The so-called "unbiased" historian is me...The so-called "unbiased" historian is merely more successful at fooling people into thinking he is unbiased.<br /><br />BB said: "free markets generate human progress, they tend to naturally concentrate wealth and power to the minority with great ability"<br /><br />They do, except compared to socialist/controlled systems, which concentrate wealth and power in a much much more dramatic and severe (and stratified) fashion than free market systems do.<br /><br />dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-77785633077020543622013-11-29T13:14:08.825-08:002013-11-29T13:14:08.825-08:00Durant's tomes on civilization cover many area...Durant's tomes on civilization cover many areas. In particular<br />economies and societies. He notes<br />the interface between the two and<br />the invariable problems that while<br />free markets generate human progress, they tend to naturally concentrate wealth and power to<br />the minority with great ability:<br />hence his view that beginning with<br />the first stirrings of civilized<br />progress in Sumeria, continuing on through following nations and<br />empires, this natural 'redistribution' results in (an also natural) reaction to<br />reverse 'redistribute' by either<br />legislated or dictated societal<br />action, or revolution. The unbiased historian recognizes the pattern, notes it, but offers no<br />solution. BB-Idahohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01388509941702241290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1327826536005692170.post-27252204237119583552013-11-29T03:59:23.525-08:002013-11-29T03:59:23.525-08:00Lack of free trade built Pyongyang.Lack of free trade built Pyongyang.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.com