The National Gain

Anders Chydenius wrote that freedom of enterprise "allows a Swede to exercise the dearest and greatest right in Nature the Almighty has given him as man, i e . to support himself in the sweat of his brow in whatever way he thinks best." Johan Norberg writes of The National Gain:

Anders Chydenius, a young priest from Österbotten in Finland (then part of Sweden), sat down to write his contribution to an essay contest. The question he would answer was the most important in Sweden at the time: ...