Against Leviathan
Against Leviathan: government power and a free society Robert Higgs
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute, c2004.
ISBN: 094599995X
DDC: 330.973
LCC: HC106.8
Edition: (hbk.)
Notes:
Articles published previously from 1981.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Is more economic equality better? -- The welfare state -- Nineteen
neglected consequences of income redistribution -- The mythology of
Roosevelt and the New Deal -- Public choice and political leadership
-- Bolingbroke, Nixon, and the rest of them -- What Professor
Stiglitz learned in Washington -- Great presidents? -- The U.S. Food
and Drug Administration -- Regulatory harmonization -- Puritanism,
paternalism, and power -- We're all sick, and government must heal us
-- Lock 'em up! -- Government protects us? -- Coercion is not a
societal constant -- Official economic statistics -- A tale of two
labor markets -- Death and taxes -- A carnival of taxation --
Unmitigated mercantilism -- Results of a fifty-year experiment in
political economy -- Results of another fifty-year experiment in
political economy -- Pity the poor Japanese -- War and Leviathan in
twentieth-century America -- Crisis and quasi-corporatist
policymaking -- The normal constitution versus the crisis
constitution -- The myth of war prosperity -- To deal with a crisis
-- Beware the pork hawk -- The Cold War is over, but U.S. preparation
for it continues -- Leviathan at bay? -- Escaping Leviathan? -- The
era of big government is not over -- The bloody hinge of American
history -- The rise of big business in America -- Origins of the
corporate liberal state -- When ideological worlds collide -- On
Ackerman's justification of irregular constitutional change -- The
so-called third way -- Thank God for the nation state?
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