Each encounter I’ve had with Lao Tzu has pointed me to something new. Almost as if the book changes with every reading. I first picked up Stephen Mitchell’s translation 40 years ago at the Bodhi Tree bookstore in Los Angeles and my life has never been quite the same. — Rick Rubin
3/4/14 #Texts & Ideas: Political Economy Midterm 1
##Part I: The Civic and Christian Tradition of Political Economy ###Assumptions of Liberalism
- humans are rational
- individual is unit of analysis
- individuals should have freedom to make own decision
- commerce seen in positive light
- the state is separate and distinct from the Market