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Article: Growth without end, amen? (conservative policies and the need to assess economic growth for the sake of growth) (Cover Story)
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- National Review
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- March 7, 1994
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THAT CAPITALISM is the best engine for economic growth is now understood throughout the Third World, the former Second World, and-- save for some Marxist sects huddled in academia---even the First World. Also, it is universally understood that capitalism can do its good work only where governments follow conservative economic policies. From Shanghai to Prague, everyone now comes to us conservatives for the Rx on economic growth. Clearly, we enjoy a strong wind in our sails.
But if we don't know where we are sailing, every wind will take us there. To be growing is not a destination-emphatically not a conservative one. Benito Mussolini decreed that Fascists must ...