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Lecture presented by Robert Higgs at the Mises Circle in Houston: “Great Economic Myths,” Saturday 29 January 2008; Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. http://mises.org

Robert Higgs, Ph.D. is an American economist of the Austrian School and a libertarian anarchist. He currently serves as a Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the Independent Institute and is an adjunct faculty member of the Ludwig von Mises Institute and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. Dr. Higgs is also a regular contributor to LewRockwell.com.

His writings in economics and economic history have most often focused on the causes, means, and effects of government growth. Some of the books he has authored include, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government; Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11, and Depression, War and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. He is also the editor of the collections, Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy; The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today; and Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Interventionism.

Robert Higgs’ official blog: http://blog.independent.org/author/rhiggs/

Related links:

http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=489

http://mises.org/literature.aspx?action=author&ID=369

http://mises.org/daily/author/369

http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs-arch.html

Links to other videos featuring Robert Higgs:

How the State Leads People to Their Own Destruction

Crisis and Liberty: The Expansion of Government Power in American History

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC3072B78D1DF6D91

How Major U.S. Neo-imperialist Wars End

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL84A8C8B84E16E36F

War and Leviathan: The Trick That Works Every Time

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2F651853B1A6CA94

The Costs of the American Empire

The Catastrophic Impact of War on Liberty

Against Leviathan

The National Security State

The New Deal

Historians, the State, and Liberty

War, Fear, and Trembling

The Complex Path of Ideological Change

The Great Depression and the Current Recession

Quasi-Corporatism: America’s Home-Grown Fascism

War and the Leviathan State

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