qui tacet consentire videtur / he who is silent seems to give consent
- Boniface VIII, Decretals
Because this silence betokened, nay, this silence was, not silence at all, but most eloquent denial!
- Thomas Cromwell
The maxim is ‘qui tacet consentiret’, the maxim of the law is ‘silence gives consent.’ If therefore you wish to construe what my silence betokened, you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.
- Sir Thomas More
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Header, from left to right:
Hernando De Soto - The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
William Easterly - The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
Stuart L. Hart - Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World’s Most Difficult Problems
CK Prahalad - The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
Jonathan A. Knee - The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street
Tim Harford - The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor–And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom
Friedrich A. Hayek - The Road to Serfdom
Karl Popper - The Open Society and its Enemies
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged
Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
John Stuart Mill - On Liberty
Brian Doherty - Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
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