Mises Daily
Author:
Stephen D. Cox
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[This excerpt from Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture discloses some plot details of Willa Cather’s novels, especially O Pioneers! ] “Economics and art are strangers.” [1] So said Willa Cather in an essay written deep in her last period of authorship. For once in her life, Cather was wrong — though she was wrong