I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a professional economist, so I'm careful that my economics is as it should be. But I have long felt that there's no economic proposition that can't be stated in clear, accessible language. So I try to be right with my fellow economists, but I try to have an audience of any interested, intelligent person.

I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula. There are some things where the government is absolutely inevitable, which we cannot get alon…

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

Going back to the most ancient times, national well-being, the national prestige depended on territory. The more territory a country had, the more income reven…

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpn…

They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.

For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip t…