The Greatest Innovations of All Time

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5. Free markets and capital markets

This is all about allowing individuals to take risks, try their ideas, and work to fashion “progress” as they see it. From Adam Smith to Milton Friedman, from hedge funds to Goldman Sachs, scads of Nobel Prizes have been awarded to folks who have figured out bits and pieces of this piece of magic.

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