War and Foreign Policy

Economists demonstrate that the various measures of government interference with market phenomena do not produce the results aimed at by the governments resorting to them.

Pages 817-828. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

"The consumer and his valuations lies at the root of all economic considerations."

Any extension will open questions, not close them. Any extension will not make us more secure where we are, but will force us to take new measures to secure our new acquisitions.

"Inflation worked as a tax on those further removed from government spending."

"Free men operating in a free market do find solutions to even the largest crises."

One way to look at war likens it to domestic crime. If it is wrong for someone to initiate force against a person who has not violated rights, why should matters change when a group of people, acting under the command of a
 

"We" were the people, suddenly staring at the fact that we had assumed ultimate and unlimited liability — moral, physical, and financial — for the outcome of war on three continents, for the survival of the British Empire, and for the utter destruction of Hitler.

In the literature of the American Revolution there is no demagogic attempt to set human rights against property rights.

The point, once more, is not that the conservatives deployed bad arguments against the supposed extremism of Mises and Rothbard. Rather, they downgraded the role of reason as such; and this rendered ineffective their resistance to the Left.