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October 16th, 2007 by 
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Here’s a Sunday comic strip I think Robert Higgs would appreciate:
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BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.
He works from Charlottesville, Virginia as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute and managing editor of Mises.org.
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siren song of the state
October 16th, 2007 by bkmarcus
At the Mises Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, the Schlarbaum Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Cause of Liberty went to the great Robert Higgs, author of Crisis & Leviathan and Resurgence of the Warfare State. Here is his acceptance speech:
The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised — a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o’erleaps its improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide.
Whatever promotes the growth of the state also weakens the capacity of individuals in civil society to fend off the state’s depredations and therefore augments the public’s multifaceted victimization at the hands of state functionaries. Nothing promotes the growth of the state as much as national emergency — war and other crises comparable to war in the seriousness of the threats they pose. FULL SPEECH
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