Ronald Reagan: An Autopsy

Critics of the free market often point to Ronald Reagan as an example of why free markets and deregulation are awful for the economy. But was Ronald Reagan really a champion of the free market? Murray Rothbard does not think so.

He argues that Reagan was a big government statist with neocon policies that increased the size of government, not to mention not that great of an actor. So much for a laissez-faire president!

Join the Mises Circle at UT as we deconstruct the myth of Reagan (and maybe Thatcher while we’re at it). We’ll show him for what he was… and we guarantee there was not a free market to be found in his policies.