Quote of the day
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic.
Robert Higgs
Born: February 1, 1944 (age 82)
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)







