Posts by Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute, author or editor of over fourteen Independent books, and Editor at Large of Independent’s quarterly journal The Independent Review.
On U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. Government Debt Is Now at a Once-Unimaginable Level
Politics Is Not Just Spy versus Spy; It’s also Slogan versus Slogan
How Much Longer Can the U.S. Economy Bear the Burdens?
Total National Security Spending Is Much Greater than the Pentagon’s Base Budget
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Don’t Worry, They’ll Guard Themselves!
All Men Are Brothers, but All Too Often They Do Not Act Accordingly
Income Inequality Is a Statistical Artifact
Gordon Tullock and the Transitional Gains Trap
Burgeoning Regulations Threaten Our Humanity
Chances Are that You Have No More Expertise in Economics than You Have in Astrophysics
Wait! You May Not Need to Lop Off So Many Heads
Do You Remember the Sixties?
Some Basics of State Domination and Public Submission
Tolstoy’s Remarkable Manifesto on Christian Anarchy and Pacifism
The U.S. Government Makes a Mockery of the Principal-Agent Relationship
Against Libertarian Infighting
Governor Stevens and I
Bootleggers and Baptists; Silversmiths and Artemis Cultists
Crisis of Political Authority? I Wish!
On My Libertarian Catholicity
Donald S. Barnhart (July 18, 1925 – September 8, 2009)
Government Spending and Regime Uncertainty—a Clarification
Thinking Is Research, Too!
Shutdown Theater

  • Catalyst
  • MyGovCost.org
  • FDAReview.org
  • OnPower.org
  • elindependent.org