# Resisting the Growth of Governments

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/resisting-growth-governments>

**By** Donald J. Boudreaux

**Published:** June 30, 2001

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Don Boudreaux speaks on the nature of government and public choice in this 2001 lecture.

In this video from a 2001 Cercle Bastiat meeting, Boudreaux speaks about the nature of government. He says that even in the face of public choice-type of environment that is constantly pushing the state to grow, ideas do matter and can constrain what the state can do.