LEADER 05509nam 2200685 450 001 9910461152503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-59813-205-9 010 $a1-59813-206-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000449222 035 $a(EBL)2098280 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001586049 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16266541 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001586049 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12170326 035 $a(PQKB)11783059 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2098280 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2098280 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11080035 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL848339 035 $a(OCoLC)914433988 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000449222 100 $a20150731h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTaking a stand $ereflections on life, liberty, and the economy /$fRobert Higgs ; foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano ; cover design, Denise Tsui 210 1$aOakland, California :$cIndependent Institute,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (643 p.) 225 0 $aIndependent studies in political economy Taking a stand 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-59813-203-2 327 $aCover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I - Politics and the State; 1 - It's who you Know; 2 - What's the Point of Demonstrating?; 3 - Partisan Politics: A Fool's Game for the Masses; 4 - Democracy's Most Critical Defect; 5 - Nothing Outside the State; 6 - Consent of the Governed?; 7 - Why this Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus? Follow the Money; 8 - Can the Dead (Capitalism) Be Brought Back to Life?; 9 - The Welfare State Neutralizes Potential Opponents by Making them Dependent on Government Benefits 327 $a10 - The Systematic Organization of Hatreds11 - All Men are Brothers, but All too Often they do not Act Accordingly; 12 - Once More, with Feeling: Our System is not Socialism, but Participatory Fascism; 13 - Love, Liberty, and the State; 14 - Legitimacy; 15 - Political Problems have Only One Real Solution; 16 - The Power of the State versus the Power of Love; 17 - State Power and how it Might be Undermined; 18 - All Government Policies Succeed in the long Run; 19 - Crisis of Political Authority? I Wish!; Part II - On doing Analysis in Political Economy 327 $a20 - Ten Rules for Understanding Economic Development21 - Underappreciated Aspects of the Ratchet Effect; 22 - Diagnostics and Therapeutics in Political Economy; 23 - Can the Rampaging Leviathan be Stopped or Slowed?; 24 - Higgs is Just a Pessimist; 25 - My Question for the Doomsters: Then What?; 26 - Defense Spending is Much Greater than you Think; 27 - Which End, if Any, is Near?; 28 - Communism's Persistent Pull; 29 - The Dangers of Samuelson's Economic Method; 30 - Don't Accuse Me of Blaming America when I Blame the Government; 31 - Extreme Aggregation Misleads Macroeconomists and the Fed 327 $a32 - Why do so Many People Automatically and Angrily Condemn Historical Revisionism?33 - Where should the Burden of Proof Rest?; 34 - Politics and Markets: A Highly Misleading Analogy; 35 - Social Science 101: Three Ways to Relate to Other People; 36 - Ten Fallacious Conclusions in the Dominant Ideology's Political Economy; 37 - Regime Uncertainty: Some Clarifications; 38 - Not Every Intellectual Gunman is a Hired Gun; 39 - Truth and Freedom in Economic Analysis and Economic Policymaking; 40 - Austrian Economics: The Queen of the Experimental Sciences 327 $a41 - Not All Countries are Analytically Equal42 - Creative Destruction-The Best Game in Town; 43 - Thinking is Research, Too!; Part III - Money, Debt, Interest Rates, and Prices; 44 - Macroeconomic Booms and Busts: De?ja? Vu Once Again; 45 - The Continuing Puzzle of the Hyperinflation that hasn't Occurred; 46 - Money versus Monetary Base: An Elementary Yet Critical Distinction; 47 - The Euthanasia of the Saver; 48 - The Fed's Immiseration of People who Live on Interest Earnings; 49 - Extraordinary Demand to Hold Cash: The Mystery Persists; 50 - More Monetary Peculiarities of the Past Five Years 327 $a51 - A Bogus Example of Controlling Inflation with Price Controls 330 $aIn his academic work, Robert Higgs has dissected the government's shrewd secret excesses that lead to the Welfare State, the Warfare State, and the Administrative State. For several decades he has unstintingly chronicled the federal, state, and local governments' malfeasance in these many areas of life that all levels of government have intruded upon without Constitutional mandate. In this book, however, are essays that show a whimsical, introspective, and personal side of this world renowned scholar. From the myth that the government has derived its powers from the consent of the governed to 606 $aAdministrative agencies$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBureaucracy$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aState, The$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAdministrative agencies$xHistory. 615 0$aBureaucracy$xHistory. 615 0$aState, The$xHistory. 676 $a320.973 700 $aHiggs$b Robert$0249685 702 $aNapolitano$b Judge Andrew P. 702 $aTsui$b Denise 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461152503321 996 $aTaking a stand$92167235 997 $aUNINA