04423nam 2200565Ia 450 991081497190332120240313032057.01-59813-089-7(CKB)2550000001132884(EBL)1022814(OCoLC)811505238(MiAaPQ)EBC1022814(Au-PeEL)EBL1022814(CaPaEBR)ebr10602151(CaONFJC)MIL532593(EXLCZ)99255000000113288420040428e20041981 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAgainst Leviathan government power and a free society /Robert HiggsOakland, Calif. Independent Institutec20041 online resource (424 p.)Independent studies in political economyArticles chiefly published previously beginning in 1981.0-945999-96-8 1-306-01342-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover ; Copyright; Dedication; Contents ; Introduction ; Part I - Welfare Statism; Chapter 1: Is More Economic Equality Better? ; Chapter 2: The Welfare State: Promising Protection in an Age of Anxiety ; Chapter 3: Nineteen Neglected Consequences of Income Redistribution ; Part II - Our Glorious LeadersChapter 4: The Mythology of Roosevelt and the New Deal Chapter 5: Public Choice and Political Leadership ; Chapter 6: Bolingbroke, Nixon, and the Rest of them; Chapter 7: What Professor Stiglitz Learned in Washington ; Chapter 8: Great Presidents? ; Part III - Despotism, Soft and HardChapter 9: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration: A Billy Club is not a Substitute for Eyeglasses Chapter 10: Regulatory Harmonization: A Sweet-Sounding, Dangerous Development ; Chapter 11: Puritanism, Paternalism, and Power ; Chapter 12: We're all Sick, and Government must Heal usChapter 18: Death and Taxes Chapter 19: A Carnival of Taxation ; Chapter 20: Unmitigated Mercantilism ; Chapter 21: Results of a Fifty-Year Experiment in Political Economy ; Chapter 22: Results of Another Fifty-Year Experiment in Political Economy ; Chapter 23: Pity the Poor JapanesePart V - The Political Economy of Crisis<DIV>An unflinching critical analysis of government is contained in this work, which distills complex economic and political issues for the layperson. Combining an economist's analytical scrutiny with an historian's respect for empirical evidence, the book attacks the data on which governments base their economic management and their responses to an ongoing stream of crises. Among the topics discussed are domestic economic busts, foreign wars, welfare programs such as social security, the arts of political leadership, the intrusive efforts of governments to protect people from themselves, and Power (Social sciences)United StatesUnited StatesEconomic policyUnited StatesPolitics and government20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government2001-2009Power (Social sciences)330.973Higgs Robert249685MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814971903321Against Leviathan4008908UNINA