How fortunate we are that our ancestors in colonial America, and then in the newly-fledged United States, weren't hampered by economists. We'd still be living in log cabins, skinning squirrels and makin' moonshine (and babies).
Fortunately, there was no one at that time "enlightened" enough to tell us that what WE needed was an entrenched bureaucracy and unlimited handouts from our sugar-daddies in Europe. As a result, we're the most prosperous nation in the history of the world.
What a coincidence.
Good for you. I am glad to see people with a basic understanding of ecnomics standing up to the Buchanan economic illiterates, who know absolutley nothing about which they speak.