Mises Daily
Author:
Richard M. Ebeling
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Delivered as part of a panel devoted to “The Warfare State,” during the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Austrian Scholars Conference 8 , March 15-16, 2002 in Auburn, Alabama. The Classical Liberals of the nineteenth century were certain that the end of the old Mercantilist system--with its government control of trade and commerce, its bounties