Posts by Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Retired Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute, author or editor of over fourteen Independent books, and Founding Editor of Independent’s quarterly journal The Independent Review.
Once More, with Feeling: Our System Is Not Socialism, but Participatory Fascism
Extraordinary Demand to Hold Cash—The Mystery Persists
On Acting Rationally in More Ways than One
The Engine of Economic Growth Is Running, but Hardly at High Speed
Thomas S. Szasz (1920-2012)
If Economics Were Like Fashion
What’s a Geezer to Do?
Homo Homini Lupus Est
Counsel of Despair?
Ten Fallacious Conclusions in the Dominant Ideology’s Political Economy
What Crusaders for Liberty Are Up Against
Anna Jacobson Schwartz (November 11, 1915–June 21, 2012)
Social Science 101: Three Ways to Relate to Other People
Politics and Markets: A Highly Misleading Analogy
Axioms of Political Geometry
Want to Rip Off Your Neighbor? Form a Government
The Systematic Organization of Hatreds
American Pie 2.2, or, The Lament of a Self-Made Misesian
If Politicians’ Honesty Set the Standard for Others
Who Is Most Likely to Oppose Totalitarianism?
“The Current Models Have Nothing to Say”
Why Did People Wait More than Sixty Years to Get Upset?
The Specter of Centrally Planned Economic Fascism Continues to Hover over the United States
Likely Fiscal and Monetary Legacies of the Current Crisis
Cessation of Labor Force Growth since 2008

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