Dr. Robert Higgs is senior fellow in political economy at the Independent Institute and editor of The Independent Review. He is also a columnist for LewRockwell.com and the author of numerous books about war, government power, historical revisionism and the welfare/warfare state (see below).
In the following video, Dr. Higgs addresses the participants at the Mises University session in Jul 2012. In this talk, which is entitled: ‘Warfare, Welfare and the State’, he demonstrates how the state undertakes to interfere in the market process and sometimes displace it entirely. For a greater understanding of the issues, he suggests the following books which provide background and reference material. (51.00)