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Economist Steven Horwitz turn 40 and takes a look back. Quotable:

But here I am at age 40, and almost everything we worried about has not come to pass .. Libertarian and related ideas have spread beyond their early narrow life in economics, political science, and philosophy to the other social sciences and humanities, as well as the arts and sciences. There is a virtual tidal wave of work on Hayek that's coming from all over the intellectual map. These are amazing developments that have exceeded what were my most optimistic expectations as an undergrad and grad student ..

When I look at my own career to this point, I actually have the same feeling of having exceeded my own expectations, but I think that success is at least as much about very good changes in the world that have made that success possible. I am by nature an unrelenting optimist, about both people and the future. I'm also convinced that we live in the best of times right now. We are, I would argue, freer, more prosperous, and more secure than any time in human history ..

Forty, shmorty. There's no time for moping when there's a world to enjoy and more progress to be made ..

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