Journal of Libertarian Studies

All Government is Excessive: A Rejoinder to Dwight Lee’s “In Defense of Excessive Government”

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Given Dwight Lee’s stalwart free enterprise credentials, it is more than passingly curious that the title of his 1998 Presidential Address to the Southern Economic Association was “In Defense of Excessive Government.”

Volume 16, Number 3 (2002)

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Walter, Block. “All Government is Excessive: A Rejoinder to Dwight Lee’s “In Defense of Excessive Government”.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 16, No. 3 (2002): 35–82.

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