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Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society
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 economic...- $18.95
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Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society
What is fundamentally wrong with government today? In Against Leviathan, economist and historian Robert Higgs, offers an unflinching critical analysis of government power. Against Leviathan combines an economist's analytical scrutiny, an historian's respect for the facts, and a refusal to accept the standard excuses...- $21.95
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Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy 1865-1914
Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy, 1865-1914 is a reinterpretation of black economic history in the half-century after Emancipation. Its central theme is that economic competition and racial coercion jointly determined the material condition of the blacks. The book identifies a number...- $41.99
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Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
Discussing how government has continually grown in size and scope during the past century, this account demonstrates that the main reason lies in government's responses to national "crises" (real or imagined), including economic upheavals and, especially, war. The result, this book argues, is the...- $19.95
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Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
Crisis and Leviathan is Higgs' masterwork on how government grows in size, scope, and power in response to real or imagined "crises." From war to economic upheavals, government overreach endures long after each crisis has passed, impinging on civil liberties and fostering extensive corporate...- $21.95
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Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity
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...- $22.95
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Depression, War, and Cold War: Challenging the Myths of Conflict and Prosperity
Offering a powerful interpretation of U.S. political economy from the early-1930s to the end of the Cold War, Higgs 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...- $21.95
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Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy
Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war. However, few, if any, of these books do so from a scholarly, informed economic standpoint. In Depression, War, and Cold War, Robert Higgs, a highly regarded economic historian, makes pointed, fresh economic...- $98.00
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Great Wars and Great Leaders (Large Print Edition): A Libertarian Rebuttal
LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com. 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...- $12.00
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Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government
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...- $15.95
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Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy
Renowned economist and historian Robert Higgs has pioneered a whole new understanding of the causes, means, and effects of government power and the need to deconstruct statism and re-establish institutions that protect and advance liberty, prosperity, and peace. In the course of his work,...- $21.95
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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 areas...- $27.95
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The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today
Is Classical Liberalism Still Vital? The quest for freedom has always been as much a battle of ideas as it is a popular struggle. Classical liberal pioneers such as John Locke and Adam Smith stressed the inherent worth of the individual, inalienable rights, and...- $19.95
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