Why Washington Never Learns

Tags: Big Government, Cronyism and Corporatism, The Police State

03/27/2018 James Bovard

The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Hunter Lewis. Presented at the Austrian Economics Research Conference at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 March 2018.

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