Robert H Higgs

Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal

The great historian of classical liberalism strips away the veneer of exalted leaders and beloved wars. Professor Ralph Raico shows them to be wolves in sheep's clothing and their wars as attacks on human liberty and human rights. In the backdrop of this blistering and deeply insightful and scholarl...

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (A Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy Book)

Few topics are as timely as the growth of government. To understand why government has grown, Robert Higgs asserts, one must understand how it has grown. This book offers a coherent, multi-causal explanation, guided by a novel analytical framework firmly grounded in historical evidence. More than a ...

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government

Few topics are as timely as the growth of government. To understand why government has grown, Robert Higgs asserts, one must understand how it has grown. This book offers a coherent, multi-causal explanation, guided by a novel analytical framework firmly grounded in historical evidence. More than a ...

Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy

In his academic work, Robert Higgs has dissected the government’s shrewd secret excesses that lead to the Welfare State, the Warfare State, and the Administrative State. For several decades he has unstintingly chronicled the federal, state, and local governments’ malfeasance in these many areas of l...

Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

An unflinching critical analysis of government is contained in this work, which distills complex economic and political issues for the layperson. Combining an economist's analytical scrutiny with an historian's respect for empirical evidence, the book attacks the data on which governments base their...

The Failure of America's Foreign Wars

Americans are now faced with competing visions of where we want our nation to go. On the one hand, we have the vision of America's Founders: individual liberty, private property, and limited government, in which there is no welfare, Social Security, income taxation, Medicare, Medicaid, regulations, ...

Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

Offering a powerful interpretation of U.S. political economy from the early-1930s to the end of the Cold War, this resource refutes many popular myths about the Great Depression and New Deal, the World War II economy, and the postwar national-security state that is still so pervasive today. What acc...

Neither Liberty nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

The history of the United States, from the 19th century to present day, is included in this examination of the very foundations of unwarranted government intrusiveness that illuminates the two essential elements that have led to the expansion of the state’s authority—the ideology that the government...

Robert Higgs

Robert Higgs (born 1 February 1944) is an American economic historian, economist combining the insights from the Public Choice, Institutional and Austrian ...

Robert Higgs

Robert Higgs (born 1 February 1944) is an American economic historian and economist combining material from Public Choice, the New Institutional economics,...

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government

Depression, War, And Cold War: Studies in Political Economy

Government & the American Economy: A New History

Government & the American Economy: A New History

Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914

Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy, 1865-1914

The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914;: An Essay in Interpretation

Arms, Politics and the Economy