Robert Higgs on "War and Leviathan: The Trick That Works Every Time" at the Future of Freedom Foundation's http://fff.org Restoring the Republic, 2007.
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and editor of The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University, and he has been a member of the faculty at the University of Washington (1968-83), Lafayette College (1983-89), and Seattle University (1989-94) and a visiting professor at the University of Economics in Prague (2006). He has also presented a series of lectures and has supervised and examined doctoral candidates in economics at Francisco Marroquín University in Guatemala. He was a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford (1971-72), and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University (1973-74). More on Higgs at: http://www.fff.org/theWord/speakers3.asp#higgs
Playlist of Higgs's lecture: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5E91CD30F1B9CFAA
One of the best talks I ever heard. all 7 of these should be required to be watched by every American :-) For Liberty!
clthinkingman 3 years ago