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.
Democracy’s Most Critical Defect
Antitrust Law: Another Bizarro World
Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Political Economy
Partisan Politics—A Fool’s Game for the Masses
Uh-oh, the Administration Is Contemplating Further Stimulus
Progressive Claptrap
Mirabile Dictu — An Intelligent Foreign Policy Decision
What’s the Point of Demonstrating?
Bad News: The Real Wage Rate Is Rising
World War II: An Unspeakable Horror Now Encrusted in Myths
Seventy Years Ago Today: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact
A Neglected Masterpiece of Economic Analysis
The Anti-Bunk Party’s Candidate for President
I Worked for the Government Today without Pay
Most Investors, Economists, and Policy Makers Are Blind to the Mountain of Malinvestments
Man-Bites-Dog Story: A Politician Speaks the Truth
Economists’ Pro-Fed Petition Discredits Its Signers
Bernie Madoff Was Only a Petty Crook Compared with Uncle Sam
U.S.-Russian Nuclear Agreement: Good News and Bad News
Regime Uncertainty in the 1930s: A New Deal Insider’s Account
One Man’s Hero Is Another Man’s Goat
Mommas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Report on the Government’s Financial Reforms
Military-Contracting Waste, Fraud, and Abuse—Just What the Government Wants
Two Views of the Labor Market in the Deepening Recession
Security Theater in Three Airports: Istanbul, Paris, and Atlanta

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