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“Something extraordinary is happening in global development circles. For the first time since the 19th century, progressive activists are embracing trade as a positive tool for change. The global NGO Oxfam is the latest progressive interest group to change its tune, launching a campaign to end agricultural subsidies in the developed world. This could represent a fundamental turning of the...(more) tide from a world based on nationalism and violence to a world based on commerce and peace.
Recent research by Columbia University political science professor Erik Gartzke shows that economic freedom is about fifty times more effective than democracy in diminishing violent conflict. The democratic peace turns out to be the free market peace.”
~ Michael Strong, CEO, FLOW
“More than the export of democracy, it is the export of entrepreneurial capitalism that can produce a new birth of peace and freedom around our globe. Entrepreneurial capitalism is based on individual invention, and because wealth comes from one's own initiative, it advances human dignity.
If, with our assistance, Adam Smith's entrepreneurial capitalism were to become ubiquitous, the cross-border investment in the success of our brothers and sisters around the world, and theirs in us, would cause people everywhere to see the futility of ancient struggles, whether based on plunder, conquest or theocratic fervor.”
~ Carl J. Schramm, president and CEO
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Peace Through Commerce is an integrated outreach, education, and engagement platform designed to promote peace through commerce and to celebrate the powerful role commerce plays in promoting peace.
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