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This approach is based on the assumption that, if everyone is fully compensated for the net benefits that they confer on others, individuals pursuing their own self-interest will, as Adam Smith put it, be led, “as if by an invisible hand,” to serve the public interest as well.

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It is this underlying assumption of limitlessness that makes it possible to take the reckless risks that we do.

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize.

It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology.

We ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe we can, ourselves, extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every man, woman and child on this planet.

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