Warfare, Welfare and the State Robert Higgs on state interference and destruction of the market process

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)