The Song that Is Irresistible: How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction

Tags: Political Theory, Big Government, War and Foreign Policy

10/23/2007 Robert Higgs

Delivered at the Mises Institute’s 25th Anniversary Celebration, 12 October 2007, in New York City.

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