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To: Jeff Head

Great post, Jeff. Please educate me - who is Dean Russell? Google returned several hits, but nothing that bio's him with this quote. Thanks in advance!


314 posted on 12/10/2004 10:48:38 AM PST by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: Hat-Trick
He wrote several books about Bastiat, one called, "Frédérick Bastiat: Ideas and Influence", another called "Government and Legal Plunder, Bastiat brought up to Date", which were published by the Foundation for Economic Education.

He also translated Bastiati's, "The Law" for that same foundation, HERE, in 1950, when he worked as a staffer for the Foundation on Economic Education as a a journalism graduate student who had finished his service with the Army Air Corps at the time. Russell's translation, published in 1950, introduced Bastiat's writings on freedom to many new readers. It has since sold a half million copies.

He later served as an honorary trustee for the Foundation of Economic Education and as a Professor of Management at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse for a time, and spent six months teaching at the National Taiwan University.

He is generally credited with coming up with the term to define those of the "Libertarian" persuassion and defines it HERE.

He was a great thinker and a loyal, patriotic American. Here are a few more of his essays:

Who is to Blame?

Free Markets and Human Freedom

Ownership and Freedom

Living in Two Chinas

506 posted on 12/10/2004 12:05:59 PM PST by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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