Author: Robert Higgs

New Deal Orgy No Model For Current Binge September 21, 2009Robert HiggsInvestor's Business Daily From a political standpoint it makes little difference whether the trillions of dollars in “stimulus” spending and […]

The Rise of Big Business and the Growth of Government September 10, 2009Robert HiggsThe Freeman Most people learn about the relation between the rise of big business and the growth of […]

Small Government Caused Our Current Problems? August 21, 2009Robert Higgs As soon as I saw the headline of an August 10 article by financial columnist Peter Cohan, I knew that something was terribly […]

Accountability Needed at Fed August 5, 2009Robert HiggsMcClatchy-Tribune Nearly 200 economists, mostly academics, have signed a petition urging Congress and the executive branch “to reaffirm their support for and defend the […]

Two Views of the Labor Market in Ongoing Recession June 25, 2009Robert HiggsCulpeper Star-Exponent, Crookston Daily Times, Alexandria Daily Town Talk Ever since the Great Depression, it seems, people have lived […]

The Two-Price System U.S. Rationing During World War II April 28, 2009Robert HiggsThe Freeman As the United States mobilized for war after mid-1940, the government’s demands for munitions and related resources began […]

Government Exploits Crisis to Seize New Powers April 5, 2009Robert Higgs How do once-free people lose their liberty? The formula may be stated succinctly: crisis and leviathan. The procedure for government […]

Recession and Recovery Six Fundamental Errors of the Current Orthodoxy March 5, 2009Robert Higgs As the recession has deepened and the financial debacle has passed from one flare-up to another […]

Watching Our Rulers Destroy Our World February 4, 2009Robert Higgs Our rulers are destroying the economy. Not little by little, as they usually do, but in huge swaths. Each great assault […]