Against Leviathan : government power and a free society /

"What is fundamentally wrong with government today? In Against Leviathan economist and historian Robert Higgs offers a critical analysis of government power." "This book combines an economists's analytical scrutiny, an historian's respect for the facts, and a refusal to acce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Higgs, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute, ©2004.
Colección:Independent studies in political economy.
Temas:
1900-2009
Power (Social sciences) > United States.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
Economic policy
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
United States > Economic policy.
United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009.
États-Unis > Politique économique.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 2001-2009.
United States
Essay
essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Is more economic equality better?
  • The welfare state
  • Nineteen neglected consequences of income redistribution
  • The mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal
  • Public choice and political leadership
  • Bolingbroke, Nixon, and the rest of them
  • What Professor Stiglitz learned in Washington
  • Great presidents?
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • Regulatory harmonization
  • Puritanism, paternalism, and power
  • We're all sick, and government must heal us
  • Lock 'em up!
  • Government protects us?
  • Coercion is not a societal constant
  • Official economic statistics
  • A tale of two labor markets
  • Death and taxes
  • A carnival of taxation
  • Unmitigated mercantilism
  • Results of a fifty-year experiment in political economy
  • Results of another fifty-year experiment in political economy
  • Pity the poor Japanese
  • War and Leviathan in twentieth-century America
  • Crisis and quasi-corporatist policymaking
  • The normal constitution versus the crisis constitution
  • The myth of war prosperity
  • To deal with a crisis
  • Beware the pork hawk
  • The Cold War is over, but U.S. preparation for it continues
  • Leviathan at bay?
  • Escaping Leviathan?
  • The era of big government is not over
  • The bloody hinge of American history
  • The rise of big business in America
  • Origins of the corporate liberal state
  • When ideological worlds collide
  • On Ackerman's justification of irregular constitutional change
  • The so-called third way
  • Thank God for the nation state?

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