Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Robert Higgs
Born: February 1, 1944 (age 80)
Bio: Robert Higgs is an American economic historian and economist combining material from Public Choice, the New Institutional economics, and the Austrian school of economics; and a libertarian anarchist in political and legal theory and public policy.
Known for:
- Crisis and leviathan (1987)
- Depression, war, and cold war (2006)
- Competition and coercion (1977)
- Against Leviathan (2004)
- Resurgence of the Warfare State (2005)