Research Catalog

Title

Against Leviathan : government power and a free society / Robert Higgs.

Author

Higgs, Robert.

Publication

Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute, c2004.

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Details

Description

xx, 408 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle
• Power (Social sciences) > United States
• États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 2001-
• United States > Politics and government > 2001-
• États-Unis > Politique économique
• United States > Politics and government > 20th century
• United States > Economic policy

Note

• Articles published previously from 1981.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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?

Call Number

JFE 05-5858

ISBN

• 094599995X (hbk.)
• 0945999968 (pbk.)

LCCN

2004010052

OCLC

55055036

Author

Higgs, Robert.

Title

Against Leviathan : government power and a free society / Robert Higgs.

Imprint

Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 05-5858