"Free people equals growth. Property rights are critical." Most of human history proves this false. For thousands of years, the biggest economies were the bigg

"Free people equals growth. Property rights are critical." Most of human history proves this false. For thousands of years, the biggest economies were the biggest slave economies. If you want to, you can cherry-pick a small handful of countries, and then cherry-pick a small number of decades from their history, and then conclude that freedom equals growth. But you'd be deluding yourself with your cherry-picked data.