Statistics: Achilles' Heel of Government

by Murray N. Rothbard

&#160;<em>The Logic of Action Two</em>, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1997, pp.180-184. This essay was published in <em>Essays on Liberty</em>, VIII (Irvington-on-Hudson, NY: Foundation for Economic Education, 1961), pp.255-261, and in <em>The Freeman</em>, June 1961, pp. 40-44.) It was republished in The Logic of Action Two (Edward Elgar, 1997, pp. 180-184). Rothbard had developed a similar argument in &#8220;The Politics of Political Economists: Comment,&#8221; <em>Quarterly Journal of Economics</em>, 74, 4 (November 1960), pp. 659-665, a critique of some theses put forward by economist George Stigler.Updated May 11, 2010

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