Taking a Stand by Robert Higgs

Taking a Stand by Robert Higgs

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A collection of essays that show a whimsical, introspective, and personal side to world renowned scholar Robert Higgs. If you want to see a true polymath at work, these lofty, serious, sad, and illuminating essays will educate you beyond what you had thought possible about life, liberty, and the economy.

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Taking a Stand by Robert Higgs

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 life that all levels of government have intruded upon without Constitutional mandate. In this book, however, are essays that show a whimsical, introspective, and personal side of this world renowned scholar. From the myth that the government has derived its powers from the consent of the governed to the role of independent experts in formulating monetary and fiscal policy; from the government s duplicity in announcing the unemployment rate in a given month to how the state entraps us, if you want to see a true polymath at work, these lofty, serious, sad, and illuminating essays will educate you beyond what you had thought possible about life, liberty, and the economy.

Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for the Independent Institute and author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government.
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ISBN 13 9781598132038
ISBN 10 1598132032
Title Taking a Stand
Author Robert Higgs
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Independent Institute,U.S.
Year published 2015-05-01
Number of pages 368
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