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Acton Commentary: From Crisis to Creative Entrepreneurial Liberation
Acton Commentary: From Crisis to Creative Entrepreneurial Liberation
May 19, 2025 3:41 AM

A new study from the Kauffman Foundation shows how Americans are increasingly turning to entrepreneurship to pull themselves out of an economic crisis. “When individuals are truly free to exercise their talents and trade the production of their labor, without oppression from tyrants or the entanglements of unnecessary government ‘oversight,’ the net effect is mutually beneficial for society as a whole,” writes Anthony Bradley in this week’s Acton Commentary.

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