HES: Re: QUERY--All pre-1936 economists were laissezfaireadvocates?

[Anthony Waterman]

Quoting Samuel Bostaph:
> I think that Mason Gaffney and I (and Mises) are perpetual ships passing in
> the night.  As Mises argued in THEORY AND HISTORY (Yale University Press,
> 1957), history is not theory, although it requires theory to understand
> it--as Mason amply illustrates as he recounts and "explains" the dastardly
> historical past of our corrupt present.
> 
> Yes, almost all governments that I can call to mind originated from some
> brute(s) seizing resources and parceling them out to his (or their)
> lackeys.

The great David Hume maintained that all government is founded on conquest or 
usurpation. Who can gainsay him?

Anthony Waterman