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.)
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505 0 $aIs more economic equality better? -- The welfare
state: promising protection in an age of anxiety -- 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:
a billy club is not a substitute for eyeglasses --
Regulatory harmonization: a sweet-sounding, dangerous
development -- 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: the emperor's
clothes are dirty -- 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: conscription
as the keystone -- Crisis and quasi-corporatist
policymaking: the U.S. case in historical perspective -- The
normal constitution versus the crisis constitution -- The
myth of war prosperity -- To deal with a crisis: government
program or free market? -- Beware the pork hawk: in pursuit
of reelection, Congress sells out the nation's defense --
The Cold War is over, but U.S. preparation for it continues
-- Leviathan at bay? (as viewed in 1991) -- 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: reflections on Kraditor's
Radical persuasion -- On Ackerman's justification of
irregular constitutional change: is any vice you get away
with a virtue? -- The so-called third way -- Thank God for
the nation state?
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