Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Robert Higgs
Born: February 1, 1944 (age 81)
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)