Economic Freedom Does Not Necessarily Lead to Greater Tolerance

Differences in race, religion and sexual orientation have erupted in violence around the world recently, making it all too clear that tolerance is an ideal that our societies haven’t fully achieved.

What isn’t well known is that economists have been studying tolerance and its preconditions for many years, discovering some fascinating yet also unsettling truths. CONT.

Tyler Cowen (George Mason), New York Times

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