Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)