Young men who can’t find productive work or begin their own businesses are probably more apt to think that joining a terrorist group makes sense. If you examine the regimes in mid-Eastern countries, you find that they are bureaucratic nightmares for those who’d like to do business. In this Philanthropy Daily piece, Martin Morse Wooster amplifies on that point, which has been most strongly made by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto.
Big government has many bad, unintended consequences and encouraging violence is among the worst.
