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The Road to Freedom

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by Arthur C. Brooks


  Time magazine, 33

  time, giving of, 81–84, 87, 137

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 33, 52, 134–135

  Too Big to Fail policy, 4

  trust, 133–134

  Tunisian revolution, 12–13

  Twain, Mark, 106

  ultimatum game, 48–50

  uncertainty, economic decline and, 146, 149

  uncharitable behavior, 82–84

  underprivileged, 15, 53–55, 71–73, 88–89

  unemployment

  facts regarding, 148

  government growth and, 150

  government intervention in, 151–152

  rising, 147–148

  unionization and, 150–151

  in welfare states, 6

  unfairness

  in free enterprise, 45

  of income redistribution, 61–63

  unhappiness, in learned helplessness, 30–31

  unionization, 150–151

  universal moral values, 45–47

  upper class, 57, 82, 161

  Urban Institute, 54

  vacations, 35

  Virginia Declaration of Rights, 10

  voluntary contributions, 87–88, 136–137

  voting, 84

  wage inflation, 161

  Wall Street Journal, 96, 102

  War on Poverty, 99

  warranties, 128, 130

  Washington Post, 96

  Watergate scandal, 3

  The Wealth of Nations (Smith), 11, 119

  welfare states. See also entitlement programs

  failure of, 6

  learned helplessness in, 30–31

  sacrifice and, 38–40

  social democracy and, 100

  welfare system reform, 14–16, 118

  Western artistic approach, 114

  Wilde, Oscar, 106

  Wilson, Woodrow, 97, 98

  work

  American/European views, 33–35

  earned success and, 31–32

  free enterprise and, 33

  good luck vs., 55–56

  soul in, 31–33

  working class, 57, 71

  world distribution of income, 72

  World Values Survey, 50, 55–56

  Yogananda, Paramahansa, 36

 

 

 


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