One of the most striking features of the 20th century is the massive growth of government in Western style democratic countries.

Sustainable economic growth ought to be the most important and central concept for policy debate. Governments should not violate basic human rights, but within that framework growth should be paramount.

"Any innovation—mechanical, biological, institutional, scientific, artistic, culinary, bureaucratic, entrepreneurial, athletic, personal—begins of course in a human mind. True, as the philosophers say, “instantiation”(Latin “an instance of”) in words or a