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Floyd Arthur ‘Baldy’ Harper, RIP

August 17, 2007 by Mises.org Updates

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On the evening of Saturday, April 21, Dr. F.A. “Baldy” Harper died suddenly, of a heart attack, at the age of 68. Murray Rothbard writes that that Baldy’s death was an irreparable loss, personally and in every other way, to the libertarian movement, would be a masterpiece of understatement. Ever since he came to the Foundation for Economic Education in 1946 as its chief economist and theoretician, Baldy Harper, in a very real sense, was the libertarian movement. For all those years, this gentle and lovable man, this wise and Socratic teacher, was the heart and soul and nerve center of the libertarian cause. FULL ARTICLE

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Dave Doctor May 20, 2010 at 12:23 pm: Outstanding description of Harper. I like the way Rothbard describes the natural movement of he and Harper towards anarchism from laissez faire.

Baldy and I came to anarchocapitalism from laissez faire at about the same time, driven by inexorable logic, in what for us was the memorable winter of 1949–50. I vividly remember one time I was visiting him at FEE and he quietly pulled out a copy of Tolstoy’s anarchist Law of Love and the Law of Violence, which he confided that “some of us are now reading with great interest.”