In preparing for my constitutional economic class this fall I was doing some background searching on the internet focusing on Adam Smith’s statement from his 1755 notebooks where he states:
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being bought about by the natural course of things.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that an article of mine was picked up, though I was somewhat thrown when I realized it was a talk I had given in Prague three years ago, and it was published without my having seen page proofs, etc. Still I appreciate it whenever anyone finds something I write worthy of publishing. This article was incorrectly titled as “An ‘Austrian’ Economists Perspective on Transnational Political Economy” — the offending word is “Transnational” and it should be “Transitional”. The article also lists me as a research fellow in the department of economics, while I am actually a professor in the economics department, and a research fellow at the Mercatus Center. But beyond that, the article as printed communicates my basic message about what we have learned from the transition experience.
I have now obtained a pdf of the original publication and will make it available on my web site this fall as I am updating those pages and using the magic of Adobe 7.0 I have even fixed the title.