Many people reading this will be familiar with Robert Higgs's classic study Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government -- but Higgs tells us what happened when the Pacific Research Institute, where he had submitted the manuscript, sent it to polymath and genius Murray Rothbard for comment.

The result was a 12,000-word, single-spaced, 26-page epistle, the first two pages of which praised Dr. Higgs to the skies. The other 24 pages went into great detail about scores of sources Higgs should read and incorporate into the text.

As he remembers it:

I can still recall the deflated feeling I had after finishing the letter. I knew that I did not have sufficient life expectancy to accomplish what Murray had indicated needed to be done. Sad to say, I couldn't read that much in a decade, even if I did nothing else, much less incorporate all of it into a coherent book. Never before had I been shown my inadequacies as a scholar in such a well-documented way -- after all, even the pathetic manuscript Murray was flogging had taken me five years to draft and rested to some extent on twenty years of study and research....

When Murray reviewed the book for Liberty magazine in 1987, he praised it extravagantly, breathing not a word about the shortcomings he had spent 24 pages detailing in a private communication written mainly for my benefit.

Rothbard died years before I wrote my first book, so I never had that experience. But in terms of my professional/business life, I have Paul Counts.

If I tried to implement all the ideas Paul has for me, it would be like incorporating those 24 pages of sources into Crisis and Leviathan. Every one of them would make me better off, though, and I consider myself beyond fortunate to know a guy whose gigantic brain and years of experience always know just what I should do.

Even just implementing 10 percent of what the guy says has made me more prosperous and my life much easier.

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