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.
Whether You Know It or Not, You Are a Tax Slave
Bureaucratic Insolence at the Border: Five Haiku
Obstructions of Trade and Migration: Who Is Hurt?
A Sandy Beach and Constitutional Political Economy
Specialization and Free Trade Enhance Our Productivity—It’s Just That Simple
Glorious Democracy
A Cantaloupe Illustrates the Key to Prosperity
The Three Basic Means by Which Ruling Elites Maintain Their Control
What Really Creates a Peaceful, Orderly, and Prosperous Society?
Even a Dimwit May Be Right and a Genius Wrong about Some Things
Dealing with Mistakes: Government Action versus Private Action
So-called Police Misconduct
First, Do No Harm
Mere Optimism Is Not a Good Substitute for Sound Theory and Far-reaching Evidence
Rulers the People Deserve?
Grateful Remembrances of My Government High Schooling
The USA’s Trifurcated Legal System
State’s Two-Way Mirror
I, Peach: A Lesson in Comparative Advantage
Four Questions for the Rulers
Peter Boettke’s Splendid Essays on Learning and Teaching Economics
The Rape of Nanking and the U.S. Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Historical Understanding versus Moral Appraisal
All Monocausal Theories of Economic Growth Are Wrong
Against the Feel-Good Study of History and Literature

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