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001    2004010052
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050  00  $aHC106.8$b.H55 2004
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100  1   $aHiggs, Robert.
245  10  $aAgainst Leviathan :$bgovernment power and a free
         society /$cRobert Higgs.
260      $aOakland, Calif. :$bIndependent Institute,$cc2004.
300      $axx, 408 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500      $aArticles published previously from 1981.
504      $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505  0   $aIs 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?
650   0  $aPower (Social sciences)$zUnited States.
651   0  $aUnited States$xEconomic policy.
651   0  $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th
         century.
651   0  $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y2001-
852      $91$aCaOKQ$hHC106.8 .H55 2004;
         http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0417/2004010052.html.
856  42  $3Contributor biographical
         information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ipg051/200401005
         2.html
856  41  $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/
         ecip0417/2004010052.html
907      $a.b2441783x