LEADER 04359nam 2200529Ia 450 001 9910790511503321 005 20230207232004.0 010 $a1-59813-089-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000001132884 035 $a(EBL)1022814 035 $a(OCoLC)811505238 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1022814 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1022814 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10602151 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL532593 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001132884 100 $a20040428e20041981 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aAgainst Leviathan$b[electronic resource] $egovernment power and a free society /$fRobert Higgs 210 $aOakland, Calif. $cIndependent Institute$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (424 p.) 225 0 $aIndependent studies in political economy 300 $aArticles chiefly published previously beginning in 1981. 311 $a0-945999-96-8 311 $a1-306-01342-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover ; 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 Leaders 327 $aChapter 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 Hard 327 $aChapter 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 us 327 $aChapter 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 Japanese 327 $aPart V - The Political Economy of Crisis 330 $a
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