Robert Higgs on the Rise and Fall of Leviathan
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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2012 · News & Politics
Robert Higgs is an economic historian whose writings focus on the causes and means of government growth. He is the author of Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1989). Higgs speaks here at a Future of Freedom Foundation conference in 1995 on the ratchet effect- the idea that governments tend to grab power during emergencies but do not cede it completely after each crisis abates- and gives his own analysis of what it might take to slow the growth of government in the 21st century. Download an .mp3 version of this lecture here: http://bit.ly/xkTDOl
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