Hypocrites & Half-Wits by Donald J. Boudreaux Douglas H. Ginsburg Hernando de Soto and his

Hernando de Soto and his team of researchers found that an astonishing ninety-eight percent of all businesses in Peru were extralegal

Such attempts always fail because nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as his own

Helen Bohen O'Bannon

special interests

after years of having to pay bribes to corrupt local officials

Hypocrites & Half-Wits by Donald J. Boudreaux Douglas H. Ginsburg Hernando de Soto and hisEach day, Donald J. Boudreaux, professor of economics at George Mason University, writes a letter to the editor of a major American publication. Often, he writes in response to an absurdity offered up by a columnist or politician, or an eye catching factoid misleadingly taken out of context. This collection, comprised of one hundred of Boudreaux's best letters, provides intelligent, witty rejoinders to questions like these: Are taxes ''really just