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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...
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Chicago :
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2015.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I -- Politics and the State; 1 -- It's who you Know; 2 -- What's the Point of Demonstrating?; 3 -- Partisan Politics: A Fool's Game for the Masses; 4 -- Democracy's Most Critical Defect; 5 -- Nothing Outside the State; 6 -- Consent of the Governed?; 7 -- Why this Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus? Follow the Money; 8 -- Can the Dead (Capitalism) Be Brought Back to Life?; 9 -- The Welfare State Neutralizes Potential Opponents by Making them Dependent on Government Benefits. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 10 -- The Systematic Organization of Hatreds11 -- All Men are Brothers, but All too Often they do not Act Accordingly; 12 -- Once More, with Feeling: Our System is not Socialism, but Participatory Fascism; 13 -- Love, Liberty, and the State; 14 -- Legitimacy; 15 -- Political Problems have Only One Real Solution; 16 -- The Power of the State versus the Power of Love; 17 -- State Power and how it Might be Undermined; 18 -- All Government Policies Succeed in the long Run; 19 -- Crisis of Political Authority? I Wish!; Part II -- On doing Analysis in Political Economy. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 20 -- Ten Rules for Understanding Economic Development21 -- Underappreciated Aspects of the Ratchet Effect; 22 -- Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Political Economy; 23 -- Can the Rampaging Leviathan be Stopped or Slowed?; 24 -- Higgs is Just a Pessimist; 25 -- My Question for the Doomsters: Then What?; 26 -- Defense Spending is Much Greater than you Think; 27 -- Which End, if Any, is Near?; 28 -- Communism's Persistent Pull; 29 -- The Dangers of Samuelson's Economic Method; 30 -- Don't Accuse Me of Blaming America when I Blame the Government; 31 -- Extreme Aggregation Misleads Macroeconomists and the Fed. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 32 -- Why do so Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism?33 -- Where should the Burden of Proof Rest?; 34 -- Politics and Markets: A Highly Misleading Analogy; 35 -- Social Science 101: Three Ways to Relate to Other People; 36 -- Ten Fallacious Conclusions in the Dominant Ideology's Political Economy; 37 -- Regime Uncertainty: Some Clarifications; 38 -- Not Every Intellectual Gunman is a Hired Gun; 39 -- Truth and Freedom in Economic Analysis and Economic Policymaking; 40 -- Austrian Economics: The Queen of the Experimental Sciences. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 41 -- Not All Countries are Analytically Equal42 -- Creative Destruction-The Best Game in Town; 43 -- Thinking is Research, Too!; Part III -- Money, Debt, Interest Rates, and Prices; 44 -- Macroeconomic Booms and Busts: Déjà Vu Once Again; 45 -- The Continuing Puzzle of the Hyperinflation that hasn't Occurred; 46 -- Money versus Monetary Base: An Elementary Yet Critical Distinction; 47 -- The Euthanasia of the Saver; 48 -- The Fed's Immiseration of People who Live on Interest Earnings; 49 -- Extraordinary Demand to Hold Cash: The Mystery Persists; 50 -- More Monetary Peculiarities of the Past Five Years. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 51 -- A Bogus Example of Controlling Inflation with Price Controls. | |
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