an oldie but a goodie

[ineffabelle]

"As a general rule for understanding public policies, I insist that there are no persistent "failed" policies. Policies that do not achieve their desired outcomes for the actual powers-that-be are quickly changed. If you want to know why the U.S. policies have been what they have been for the past sixty years, you need only comply with that invaluable rule of inquiry in politics: follow the money."
- Robert Higgs (boldface mine)

Comments

[grandmofhelsing.livejournal.com]

Higgs is great. I met him years ago at a conference and ate breakfast with him every morning (he, Doug Bandow, and I were the early risers). And, lucky me, the Independent Institute just comped me a copy of one of his latest books.

[machinedelmorte.livejournal.com]

follow the money and the guns

[weishaupt.livejournal.com]

Qui bono?

.. and I don't mean the guy in U2.

[lassiter.livejournal.com]

Though that guy in U2 is also following the money.

[weishaupt.livejournal.com]

True.