Freedom and Flourishing: Why We Need Both For A Good Life

Freedom enables individuals to flourish in different ways, allows for growth of opportunities, and supports personal development by enabling individuals to exercise wise and well-informed self-direction.

My guest, economist Winton Bates, argues in a new book that Western freedom was more or less a happy accident of history. Loose it, and we may not get it back again.

We discuss the future of freedom, progress, personal growth, and a lot more in his new book, Freedom, Progress, and Human Flourishing: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/freedom-progress-and-human-flourishing-winton-russell-bates/1138735295

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