Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Tom Woods, a senior fellow of the Mises Institute, received the Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award, given in Vienna by the Hayek Institute and the Austrian Economics Center, in 2019. He is the author of 13 books, most recently Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania.

Tom’s other books include the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History and Meltdown (on the financial crisis, featuring a foreword by Ron Paul). His book The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy won the $50,000 first prize in the Templeton Enterprise Awards.

Tom’s articles have appeared in dozens of popular and scholarly periodicals, and his books have been translated into a dozen languages.

Tom hosts the Tom Woods Show, a libertarian podcast with thousands of episodes, and he created hundreds of videos in history for the Ron Paul homeschool curriculum.

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Mises Wire Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The political entrepreneur succeeds by using the implicit violence of government to cripple his competitors and harm consumers. The market entrepreneur, on the other hand, makes his fortune by providing consumers with products they need at prices they can afford.

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Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Rollback takes on both liberal and conservative conventions and their habits of mind. The objective of the work is dramatically ambitious. Woods writes with relentless precision, like an intellectual surgeon, to convince the reader that the
Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
The threat of statism has reemerged in force. The federal government has seized on the economic crisis to radically expand its power—through bailouts, “stimulus” packages, a trillion-dollar health care plan, “jobs bills,” massive expansions of the

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