economic prosperity• Bushemphasized the linkage between economic prosperity and political freedom.• Forbes, speaking by telephone, promoted his flat tax plan as a catalyst for economic prosperity.• The crimewave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity.• Many other economic factors might be viewed as contributing to the emergence of spatialdisparities in economic prosperity.• According to the economic libertarian's theory, there should have been an increase in economic prosperity.• Conservatives understand the engine of economic prosperity.• The outcome could have widened the already-growing gap between rich and poor and profoundly affected our economic prosperity for decades.• She also quickly realized that economic prosperity would more than make up for her political defeat.