Published Thursday, May 31, 2007 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
There is a Japanese custom naming great achievers as living national treasures. In an article from 1986, Lew Rockwell wrote that there were three then living: Henry Hazlitt, W.H. Hutt, and Murray N. Rothbard. To most Americans, economists don't leap instantly to mind as treasures, let alone national treasures. Whether making arrogant and fallacious mathematical predictions, filling the minds of college students with the wrong-headed Keynesian and socialist ideas, or giving a theoretical cover to state inflation, taxation, regulation, and spending — the typical economist is not a friend of liberty.
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