This is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial economic practices, from profiteering and gouging to bribery and blackmail.
Freedom and Power collects Lord Acton's most important writings on a theme that would define his reputation for more than a century: the corruptions of power.
Richard Cantillon's 1755 masterpiece on economics is widely credited with being the first to describe the market process as one driven by entrepreneurship. He deserves to be called “the father of enterprise economics."
