The author, John Allen Pugsley was an American voluntaryist libertarian political and economics commentator, lecturer, and best-selling author. Pugsley was born in Minnesota. He attended El Camino Junior College, the University of Florida, and graduated from UCLA. After serving in the U.S. Army, he spent a year cruising on a 38-foot sailboat, and another year living in Mexico with his wife and children. He then returned to the U.S. and spent the next two decades as a businessman. In the late 1960's, Pugsley entered the investment business, where he founded a publishing company (The Common Sense Press) and wrote his first book, Common Sense Economics. It sold over 150,000 hardcover copies., ISBN13:B000K3S55E ISBN10:B000K3S55E Material Type:hardcover