All Posts Tagged With: "The Mainspring of Human Progress"
Henry Grady Weaver’s Classic Vision of Freedom
John Hood is the president of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is the author of The Heroic Enterprise: Business and the Common Good (Free Press, 1996). This essay is an expanded version of Mr. Hood’s introduction to the third edition of The Mainspring of Human Progress by Henry Grady Weaver, published [...]
1Aug1997 | John Hood | 0 comments | ContinuedTalking To Ourselves
Mr. Weaver (1889-1949) is the author of The mainspring of Human Progress. Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing “But what’s the use of talking to ourselves? What’s the point of sending literature on free enterprise to people who [...]
1Sep1955 | Henry Grady Weaver | 0 comments | Continued-
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