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Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.

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Without popular fear, no government would endure more than twenty-four hours.

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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:
  1. Crisis and leviathan (1987)
  2. Depression, war, and cold war (2006)
  3. Competition and coercion (1977)
  4. Against Leviathan (2004)
  5. Resurgence of the Warfare State (2005)

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