Lawrence Summers gets an education on a roadtrip through the mountain West.

The free market had little to do with the settling and economic progress of the American West. The economy of many of the places we visited was the creation of the U.S. government.

Economist Lawrence Summers gets an education during a roadtrip through the mountain West.

↩︎ The Washington Post

Oct 10, 2018

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