{"id":1677,"date":"2017-01-04T17:09:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T21:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/oikonomia\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2017-01-04T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T21:09:48","slug":"thomas-sowell-origins-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/oikonomia\/2017\/01\/thomas-sowell-origins-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

By Joseph Sunde<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe mundane progress driven by ordinary economic and social processes in a free society becomes dramatic only when its track record is viewed in retrospect over a span of years.\u201d \u2013Thomas Sowell<\/em><\/p>\n

In a recent edition of Uncommon Knowledge<\/a>, economist Thomas Sowell discusses his latest book, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics<\/a><\/em>, which provides a comprehensive argument for the origins of prosperity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no explanation needed for poverty. The species began in poverty,\u201d Sowell says. \u201cSo what you really need to know is what are the things that enable some countries, and some groups within countries, to be prosperous.\u201d<\/p>\n